Earnestness Quote by 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 trust in…

— 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 still of…

— 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 sacrifice freely…

— 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 God has…

— 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 strongly, but…

— 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 won, so…

— 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 that it…

— 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 civility, courtesy,…

— Frederick William Robertson