Frederick William Robertson Quotes

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• As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are…
• Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the…
• Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
• Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
• It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
• 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 made,…
• On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but only with being true to God, and for God. Defeat in doing right…
• Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
• The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
• We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
• There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.
• Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
• False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the…
• The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.
• Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.
• It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on…
• Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to…
• It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No man…
• The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
• Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are…

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