139 Quotes by Frederick William Robertson

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

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

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory)

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

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.

He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.