139 Quotes by Frederick William Robertson

Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men’s sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God’s will.

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet – a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes – in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender – is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.

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.

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.

What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer’s cross, and in the power of His resurrection.

False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes – whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.

Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is “the hope of glory.” It is the eagle eye of faith which penetrates the grave, and sees far into the tranquil things of death. He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.