Quotes from Frederick William Robertson

Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.

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.

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

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

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

If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.

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

Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.

The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.

That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.

Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.

Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.

A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

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.

Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.

Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

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.

It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

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

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

Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.