“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.

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British writer and theologian 1816–1853

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