Frederick William Robertson Quotes

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

Frederick William Robertson

Education, Children, Science

Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons ...”, p.271

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

Frederick William Robertson

Hypocrisy, Three, World

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

Frederick William Robertson

Done, Action, Life Is

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.225

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It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it is the frequency and the earnestness with which you meditate on these things, till the truth which may be in them becomes your own, and part of your own being, that ensures your spiritual growth.

Frederick William Robertson

Truth, Book, Learning

"Sermons".

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As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

Frederick William Robertson

Adversity, Men, Broken

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There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God is felt. Faith stands serenely far above the reach of the atheism of science. It does not rest on the wonderful, but on the eternal wisdom and goodness of God. The revelation of the Son was to proclaim a Father, not a mystery. No science can sweep away the everlasting love which the heart feels, and which the intellect does not even pretend to judge or recognize.

Frederick William Robertson

Father, Heart, Son

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 220, 1895.

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We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this, to forget self in God.

Frederick William Robertson

Self, Shadow, Redemption

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It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

Frederick William Robertson

Contentment, Spirit, Fitting

Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.775

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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.

Frederick William Robertson

Love, Two, Perfect

Frederick William ROBERTSON (Incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton.) (1859). “Expository Lectures on St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians”, p.118

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The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

Frederick William Robertson

Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics”, p.148

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To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

Frederick William Robertson

Grieving, Sin, Repentance

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”

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There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

Frederick William Robertson

Silence, Depth, Divine

Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.54

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To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.

Frederick William Robertson

Strong, Believe, Men

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.234

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We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Frederick William Robertson

Forgiveness, Winning, Conquer

Frederick William Robertson (1861). “Sermons ...”, p.252

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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.

Frederick William Robertson

Strong, Prayer, Mean

Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.34

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No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

Frederick William Robertson

Mistake, Greatness, Men

Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Life, Letters, Lectures, and Addresses”, p.767

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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.

Frederick William Robertson

Hate, Hypocrisy, Hatred

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 298, 1895.

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Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.

Frederick William Robertson

War, Mistake, Winning

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.66

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Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

Frederick William Robertson

Disappointment, Victory, Defeat

Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.288

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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.

Frederick William Robertson

Men, Names, People

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

Frederick William Robertson

Prayer, Wish, Praying

Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”

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On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, which is the sweet savor before God. The defeat of the true-hearted is victory.

Frederick William Robertson

Success, Victory, Earth

"Life, Letters, Lectures, and Addresses of Fredk. W. Robertson, Incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 1847-1853".

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If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.

Frederick William Robertson

Noble, Spirit, Duty

Frederick William Robertson (1863). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.253, Boston : Fields, Osgood

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory)

Frederick William Robertson

Failure, Sacrifice, Long

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

Frederick William Robertson

Thinking Of You, Thinking About You, Past

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.436

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Born: February 3, 1816
Died: August 15, 1853
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