God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God;… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, but it is the frequency and… — 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
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
He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth… — 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
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
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
