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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Men, Liberty, Shrinking

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.362

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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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• 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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• The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Mistake, Self, Comfort

  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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• 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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• 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.

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  Truth, Book, Learning

  "Sermons".

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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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• 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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• 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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• A heart renewed--a loving heart--a penitent and humble heart--a heart broken and contrite, purified by love--that and only that is the rest of men. Spotlessness may do for angels, repentance unto life is the highest that belongs to man.

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  Heart, Humble, Angel

  Frederick William Robertson (1917). “Sermons on Bible subjects”

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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.

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  Father, Heart, Son

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

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• The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Christian, Revenge

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.750

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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

  Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.94

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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.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Character, Thinking, Hypocrisy

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons”, p.189

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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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• You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Soul, Deeds, Humbleness

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.168

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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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• Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Christian, Age, Done

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.341

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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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• Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Christian, Eye, Men

  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”, p.316

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• Humility is that simple, inner life of real greatness, which is indifferent to magnificence, and, surrounded by it all, lives far away in the distant country of a Father's home, with the cross borne silently and self-sacrificingly in the heart of hearts.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Country, Father, Real

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.242

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