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.

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  Truth, Book, Learning

  "Sermons".

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Self, Shadow, Redemption

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Wise, Men, Honor

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.403

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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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• God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love.

  Frederick William Robertson

  God, Justice, And Love

  Frederick William Robertson (1868). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.195

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  "Sermons on Religion & Life".

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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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• 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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