Quotes from Frederick William Robertson

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.

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

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

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.

This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

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

Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.

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

This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.

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.

What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.

The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.

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