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“Brethren, are you in earnest? If so, though your faith be weak, and your struggles unsatisfactory, you may begin the hymn of triumph now, for victory is pledged. Thanks be to God, which " — not shall give, but "giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 110.

“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.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 21.

“But if there has been on this earth no real, perfect human life, no love that never cooled, no faith that never failed, which may shine as a loadstar across the darkness of our experience, a light to light amidst all convictions of our own meanness and all suspicions of other's littleness, why, we may have a religion, but we have not a Christianity. For if we lose Him as a Brother, we cannot feel Him as a Saviour.”

Frederick William Robertson

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

“In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 605.

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

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 234.

“By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 252.

“There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly — it is incredible to other men.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 605.

“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.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 477.

“Christian life is action: not a speculating, not a debating, but a doing. One thing, and only one, in this world has eternity stamped upon it. Feelings pass; resolves and thoughts pass; opinions change. What you have done lasts — lasts in you. Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 2.

“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.”

Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 378.