It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
In these two things the greatness of man consists, to have God dwelling in us as to impart His character to us,… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property,… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly.… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil.… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
My Christian brethren, if the crowd of difficulties which stand between your souls and God succeed in keeping you away, all is… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this,… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
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… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will."… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Tell men that God is love; that right is right, and wrong, wrong; let them cease to admire philanthropy, and begin to… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share
By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share
This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share
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… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share
Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share
What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share
However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share
The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share
God's highest gifts--talent, beauty, feeling, imagination, power--they carry with them the possibility of the highest heaven and the lowest hell. Be sure that it… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share
There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe civility, courtesy,… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share
Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share
Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share
What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrange ment — God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share
