Frederick William Robertson: Quotes about God

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.

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