Frederick William Robertson Quotes

Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

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.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, which is the sweet savor before God. The defeat of the true-hearted is victory.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

Humility is that simple, inner life of real greatness, which is indifferent to magnificence, and, surrounded by it all, lives far away in the distant country of a Father’s home, with the cross borne silently and self-sacrificingly in the heart of hearts.

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

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 is by that which is highest in you that you may be lost.

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet – a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

He who, with strong passions, remains chaste–he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive–these are strong men, spiritual heroes.

There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.