The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and… — 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
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward… — 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… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body--and now as then the issues of… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Humility is that simple, inner life of real greatness, which is indifferent to magnificence, and, surrounded by it all, lives far away… — 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
Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is "the hope of glory." It… — 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
You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed… — 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
Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.… — 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
It was necessary for the Son to disappear as an outward authority, in order that He might reappear as an inward principle… — 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
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
