Frederick William Robertson Quotes

• A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

  Frederick William Robertson

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• However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

  Frederick William Robertson

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  Tags in Painful, Character, Existence

• 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.

  Frederick William Robertson

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  Tags in World, Freely

• Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

  Frederick William Robertson

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• 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.

  Frederick William Robertson

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• It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

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• Men… are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

  Frederick William Robertson

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• Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.

  Frederick William Robertson

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• No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

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  Tags in Except, Great, Happy

• Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God’s will.

  Frederick William Robertson

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  Tags in Forget, Prayer

• Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

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  Tags in Believe, Mightily

• The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

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• The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

  Frederick William Robertson

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• 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.

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• 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.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Good, Learn, Things

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

  Frederick William Robertson

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  Tags in Teacher, Minds, True

• There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

  Frederick William Robertson

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  Tags in World, Deserve

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

  Frederick William Robertson

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  Tags in Wine, Common, Glory

• 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.

  Frederick William Robertson

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  Tags in Meaning, Thinking, Earth

• We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

  Frederick William Robertson

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  Tags in Forgiveness, Win

Frederick William Robertson (20)

Birth:	3rd February, 1816
Death:	15th August, 1853
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Clergyman

About

Frederick William Robertson was born in London, UK. He, known as Robertson of Brighton, was an English clergyman who became widely popular particularly among the working class because of the oratory and psychological insight in his sermons preached from 1847 at Trinity Chapel, Brighton. Appealing to a broad religious consensus within Anglican belief by avoiding theological concepts, he advocated the reform ideas of the 1848 Revolution, but his views generated strong opposition. He graduated from Oxford University with the B.A. in 1841 and M.A. in 1844. He served as curate to several churches from 1840 to 1847.

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