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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• 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.

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  Adversity, Men, Broken

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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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• 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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• ... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.

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  Religious, Humble, Men

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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

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

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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

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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)

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  Failure, Sacrifice, Long

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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.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Dream, Blood, Names

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

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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.

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  Soul, Deeds, Humbleness

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

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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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• 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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• The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Love, Trials, Found

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.182

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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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace are to be found, but in taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Jesus, Understanding, Doctrine

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.812

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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.

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  Success, Victory, Earth

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

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• Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

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  Disappointment, Victory, Defeat

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

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• No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

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  Happiness, Effort, Inward

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