All Frederick William Robertson Quotes
- What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because… Beautiful
- We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us… Central
- There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God is felt. Faith… Atheism
- Christ within us, the hope of glory. Christ
- Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up… Eternity
- You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens… Act
- However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long… Anything Left
- In these two things the greatness of man consists, to have God dwelling in us as to impart His character to us, and to have… Assurance
- This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the… Earnest
- No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves. Effort
- To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Belief
- To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity. Christian
- Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked. Anchor
- ... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit… All
- What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement ... and the manly and wise way is to look your disadvantages in the… Arrangement
- The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize… Across
- Poetry creates life; Science dissects death. Creates
- There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. Deserve
- A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers… Always Wonderful
- Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated. Child