Frederick William Robertson: Trending quotes (page 2)

“It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits than to say that our lives depend upon our opinions, which is only now and then true.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 440.

Dependency

“You cannot undo your acts. If you have depraved another's will, and injured another's soul, it may be in the grace of God that hereafter you will be personally accepted, and the consequence of your guilt inwardly done away; but your penitence cannot undo the evil you have done. The forgiveness of God — the blood of Christ itself — does not undo the past.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 217.

God , Soul , Forgiveness , Evil

“The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 617.

Life , Wisdom , God , Law

“However dreary we may have felt life to be here, yet when that hour comes — the winding up of all things, the last grand rush of darkness on our spirits, the hour of that awful sudden wrench from all we have ever known or loved, the long farewell to sun, moon, stars, and light — brother man, I ask you this day, and I ask myself humbly and fearfully, "What will then be finished? When it is finished, what will it be? Will it be the butterfly existence of pleasure, the mere life of science, a life of uninterrupted sin and self-gratification, or will it be, 'Father, I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do?'"”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 175.

Love , Life , Pleasure , Star

“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.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 486.

God , Affliction , Learning , Evil

“He who lives to God rests in his Redeemer's love, and is trying to get rid of his old nature — to him every sorrow, every bereavement, every pain, will come charged with blessings, and death itself will be no longer the " king of terrors," but the messenger of grace.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 119.

Love , Death , God , Pain

“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.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 612.

World , Dreams , Christ

“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. Poor mediocrity may secure that; but 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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 117.

Life , War , Victory , Falseness

“Read a work on the "Evidences of Christianity," and it may become highly probable that Christianity, etc., are true. This is an opinion. Feel God. Do His will, till the Absolute Imperative within you speaks as with a living voice, " Thou shalt, and thou shalt not;" and then you do not think, you know that there is a God.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 138.

God , Feeling , Thinking , Reading

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

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 400.

Love , God , Strong

“Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point to the fulfillment of what we want, the answer to every longing — the type of perfect humanity, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 55.

Past , Christ , Perfection

“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.”

Frederick William Robertson

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

Love , Life , Soul

“A consistent Christian may not have rapture; he has that which is much better than rapture — calmness — God's serene and perpetual presence.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 278.

God

“Life passes; work is permanent. It is all going — fleeting and withering. Youth goes. Mind decays. That which is done remains. Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for God, that, and only that, you are. Deeds never die.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 119.

Life , God , Youth , Age

“I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them — with a deep, living, godlike hatred.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 298.

Hate , Christ

“There is a grand fearlessness in faith. He who in his heart of hearts reverences the good, the true, the holy — that is, reverences God — does not tremble at the apparent success of attacks upon the outworks of faith. They may shake those who rest on those outworks — they do not move him whose soul reposes on the truth itself. He needs no prop or crutches to support his faith. Founded on a Rock, Faith can afford to gaze undismayed at the approaches of Infidelity.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 221.

God , Truth , Faith , Soul

“There are few signs in a soul's state more alarming than that of religious indifference, that is, the spirit of thinking all religions equally true— the real meaning of which is, that all religions are equally false.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 344.

Religion , Soul , Thinking , Falseness

“My Saviour! fill up the blurred and blotted sketch which my clumsy hand has drawn of a Divine life, with the fullness of Thy perfect picture. I feel the beauty I cannot realize; robe me in Thine unutterable purity.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 77.

Life , Beauty , Feeling , Perfection

“Every day in this world has its work; and every day as it rises out of eternity keeps putting to each of us this question afresh, "What will you do before to-day has sunk into eternity and nothingness again? " And now what have we to say with respect to this strange, solemn thing — Time? That men do with it through life just what the apostles did for one precious and irreparable hour in the garden of Gethsemane — they go to sleep.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 120.

Life , Men , World , Question

“He in whose heart the law was, and who alone of all mankind was content to do it, His sacrifice alone can be the sacrifice all-sufficient in the Father's sight as the proper sacrifice of humanity; He who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, He alone can give the Spirit which enables us to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. He is the only High-Priest of the universe.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 87.

God , Law , Universe , Heart