Frederick William Robertson Quotes

• Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

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  Education, Children, Science

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• There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

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  Hypocrisy, World, Three Things

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• Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

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  Love, Two, Perfect

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• This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

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  Men, Liberty, Shrinking

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• Read a work on the "Evidences of Christianity," and it may become highly probable that Christianity, etc., are true. This is an opinion. Feel God. Do His will, till the Absolute Imperative within you speaks as with a living voice, "Thou shalt, and thou shalt not;" and then you do not think, you know that there is a God.

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  Thinking, Voice, Etc

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• There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

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  Thinking Of You, Thinking About You, Past

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• We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

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  Forgiveness, Winning, Conquer

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• A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

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  Wise, Men, Honor

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• We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property, and the rights of man. Rights are grand things, divine things in this world of God's; but the way in which we expound these rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. I can see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. Alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights.

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  Men, Rights, Forever

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• Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.

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  Lying, Self, Class

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• What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.

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  Dream, Blood, Names

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• The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

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  Strong, Prayer, Mean

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• False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.

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  Men, Names, People

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• If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.

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  Character, Thinking, Hypocrisy

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• Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.

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  Done, Action, Life Is

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• Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

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  Prayer, Wish, Praying

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• The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.

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  Mother, Eye, Son

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• I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

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  Hate, Hypocrisy, Hatred

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• It was necessary for the Son to disappear as an outward authority, in order that He might reappear as an inward principle of life. Our salvation is no longer God manifested in a Christ without us, but as a " Christ within us, the hope of glory.

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  Son, Order, Principles

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• There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe civility, courtesy, kindness, even tenderness. It is only those who love the Lord who should find in our hearts a home.

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  Kindness, Home, Heart

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• Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil. But the evil is, when men go on in that languid, doubting way, content to doubt, proud of their doubts, morbidly glad to talk about them, liking the romantic gloom of twilight, without the manliness to say,--I must and will know the truth. That did not John. Brethren, John appealed to Christ.

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  Twilight, Heart, Men

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• That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.

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  Friendship, Given, Circumstances

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• Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.

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  Grief, Men, Soul

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• The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

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  Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving

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• Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.

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  Spiritual, Reality, Baptism

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