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Quotes by Frederick William Robertson

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
Duty is never uncertain at first. It is only after we have got involved in the mazes and sophistries of wishing that things were otherwise than they are, that it seems indistinct. Considering a duty is often only explaining it away.
– Frederick William Robertson
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
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
In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then, it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.
– Frederick William Robertson
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
– Frederick William Robertson
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
It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
– Frederick William Robertson
Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. He is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes; organize victory out of mistakes.
– Frederick William Robertson
Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
– Frederick William Robertson
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
– Frederick William Robertson
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
– Frederick William Robertson
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
– Frederick William Robertson
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
– Frederick William Robertson
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
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
– Frederick William Robertson
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
– Frederick William Robertson
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.
– Frederick William Robertson
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
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
– Frederick William Robertson
To recognize with delight all high and generous and beautiful actions; to find a joy even in seeing the good qualities of your bitterest opponents, and to admire those qualities even in those with whom you have least sympathy, this is the only spirit which can heal the love of slander and of calumny.
– Frederick William Robertson
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
– 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.
– Frederick William Robertson
We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
– Frederick William Robertson
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.
– Frederick William Robertson