"We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting……" — Frederick William Robertson
"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 from this selfishness. Redemption is this, to forget self in God."
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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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