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 Copy Share Image
There is rest in this world nowhere except in Christ, the manifested love of God. Trust in excellence, and the better you become, the keener is the feeling of deficiency. Wrap up all in doubt, and there is a stern… — 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
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
