The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled… — 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
This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures,… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
But if there has been on this earth no real, perfect human life, no love that never cooled, no faith that never… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace… — 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
By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
There is a grand fearlessness in faith. He who in his heart of hearts reverences the good, the true, the holy--that is,… — 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
