Frederick William Robertson: Quotes about the soul

Frederick William Robertson was British writer and theologian. Explore interesting quotes on soul.
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“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.

God , Truth , Soul

“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