16 Quotes by Frederick Robertson
- No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
- The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
- We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
- To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
- There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
- The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
- The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
- The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
- The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
- 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 made, was ever made in vain.
- Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
- It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
- It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
- Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
- Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
- Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
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