Frederick William Robertson: Trending quotes

“He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!"”

Frederick William Robertson

till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 604.

Truth

“Nothing satisfies God but the voluntary sacrifice of love. The pain of Christ gave God no pleasure — only the love that was tested by pain — the love of perfect obedience.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 401.

Love , God , Pain , Pleasure

“There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe civility, courtesy, kindness, even tenderness. It is only those who love the Lord who should find in our hearts a home.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 111.

Love , God , Home , Heart

“Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquid 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 there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 210.

Love , Life , God , Nature

“There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God is felt. Faith stands serenely far above the reach of the atheism of science. It does not rest on the wonderful, but on the eternal wisdom and goodness of God. The revelation of the Son was to proclaim a Father, not a mystery. No science can sweep away the everlasting love which the heart feds, and which the intellect does not even pretend to judge or recognize.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 220.

Love , Wisdom , God , Faith

“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.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 205.

Men , World

“It is perilous to separate thinking rightly from acting rightly. He is already half false who speculates on truth and does not do it. Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action — not a thought. And the penalty paid by him who speculates on truth, is that by degrees the very truth he holds becomes a falsehood.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 606.

Life , Truth , Penalty , Thinking

“Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body — and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands — that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 65.

Life , Death , God , Sense

“Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man — a noble man — frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 104.

God , Truth , Freedom , Christ

“God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 285.

God , Truth

“If we knew all our need, what a large want book we should require! How comforting to know that Jesus has a supply book which exactly meets our want book. We want the vision of a calmer and simpler beauty, to tranquillize us in the midst of artificial tastes — we want the draught of a pure spring to cool the flame of our excited life; we want, in other words, the spirit of the life of Christ, simple, natural, with power to soothe and calm the feelings which it rouses; the fullness of the spirit which can never intoxicate.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 96.

Life , Books , Beauty , Feeling

“There is rest in this world nowhere except in Christ, the manifested love of God. Trust in excellence, and the better you become, the keener is the feeling of deficiency. Wrap up all in doubt, and there is a stern voice that will thunder at last out of the wilderness upon your dream.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 517.

Love , God , World , Dreams

“The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 112.

Life

“You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 211.

Love , Life , Soul

“He is not affected by our mutability; our changes do not alter Him. When we are restless, He remains serene and calm; when we are low, selfish, mean or dispirited, He is still the unalterable I AM, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever, in whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. What God is in Himself, not what we may chance to feel Him in this or that moment to be, that is our hope. My soul, "hope thou in God."”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 93.

God , Hope , Feeling , Soul

“This is the secret of Christ's kingship— "He became obedient — wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him." And this is the secret of all obedience and all command. Obedience to a law above you subjugates minds to you who never would have yielded to mere will.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 437.

God , Secret , Law , Christ

“To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 23.

Strong , Happiness

“And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is false to your nature, into the life of goodness, which is the truth of your being. Scorn all that is mean; hate all that is false; struggle with all that is impure Live the simple, lofty life which befits an heir of immortality.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 314.

Life , God , Hate , Truth

“It was necessary for the Son to disappear as an outward authority, in order that He might reappear as an inward principle of life. Our salvation is no longer God manifested in a Christ without us, but as a " Christ within us, the hope of glory."”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 68.

Life , God , Hope , Christ

“My Christian brethren, if the crowd of difficulties which stand between your souls and God succeed in keeping you away, all is lost. Right into the Presence you must force your way, with no concealment, baring the soul with all its ailments before Him, asking, not the arrest of the consequences of sin, but the cleansing of the conscience " from dead works to serve the living God," so that if you must suffer, you will suffer as a forgiven man.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 432.

God , Way , Soul , Suffering