Frederick William Robertson: Quotes about love

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.

Love , Life , Faith , Religion

“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.

Love , God , Soul , Forgiveness

“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.

Love , Life , Men , Truth

“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.

Love , Christ