Frederick William Robertson

Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.

— Frederick William Robertson

By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful…

— Frederick William Robertson

This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer…

— Frederick William Robertson

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.

— Frederick William Robertson

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no…

— Frederick William Robertson

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

What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them…

— Frederick William Robertson

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

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

— Frederick William Robertson

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

— Frederick William Robertson

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…

— Frederick William Robertson

There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe…

— Frederick William Robertson

Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.

— Frederick William Robertson

Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons…

— Frederick William Robertson

What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrange ment — God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and…

— Frederick William Robertson

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no…

— Frederick William Robertson

Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly.…

— Frederick William Robertson

Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before…

— Frederick William Robertson

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

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

What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement ... and the manly and wise way is to look your…

— Frederick William Robertson

To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.

— Frederick William Robertson

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.

— Frederick William Robertson

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

— Frederick William Robertson

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

— Frederick William Robertson