"Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If……" — Frederick William Robertson
"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 beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving."
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Frederick William Robertson
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51 Quotes by Frederick William Robertson
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As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay,…
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Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place…
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Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
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Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
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It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly…
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On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but only with being true to God, and for…
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Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
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The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
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We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
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There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.
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Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the…
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If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
— Mayim Bialik
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I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way…
— Mayim Bialik
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He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is…
— Chanakya
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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to…
— Tadao Ando
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When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's…
— Dan Millman
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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for…
— Eckhart Tolle
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It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of…
— Linda Hogan
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The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If…
— Unknown Author
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There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence…
— Khalil Gibran
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