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The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.
— Frederick William Robertson
If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.
— Frederick William Faber
There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.
— Frederick William Faber
The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.
— Frederick William Robertson
Time and pains will do anything.
— Frederick William Robertson
Christ within us, the hope of glory.
— Frederick William Robertson
If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.
— Frederick William Robertson
Never permit failure to become a habit.
— William Frederick Book
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
— Frederick William Robertson
When it comes to cleverness, I'm afraid that I was limited to alternate tuesdays ...
— William Frederick
A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.
— Frederick William Robertson
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
— Frederick William Robertson
God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.
— Frederick William Robertson
Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.
— Frederick William Robertson
That in East Prussia Frederick William I tolerated the Mennonites as indispensable to industry,
— Max Weber
Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.
— Frederick William Robertson
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.
— Frederick William Robertson
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
— Frederick William Robertson
Men ... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
— Frederick William Robertson
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
— Frederick William Robertson
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
— Frederick William Robertson
Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.
— Frederick William Robertson
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
— Frederick William Robertson
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
— Frederick William Faber
To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.
— Frederick William Robertson
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
— Frederick William Robertson
There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.
— Frederick William Faber
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
— Frederick William Robertson
Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.
— Frederick William Faber
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.
— Frederick William Robertson
It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
— Frederick William Robertson
My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured.
— Frederick William Borden
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
— Frederick William Robertson
Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.
— Frederick William Robertson
The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?
— Frederick William Faber
On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but only with being true to God, and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
— Frederick William Robertson
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
— Frederick William Faber
The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, Whom will we serve?
— Frederick William Faber
God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.
— Frederick William Faber
A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.
— William Frederick Book
We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
— Frederick William Robertson
To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.
— Frederick William Robertson
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
— Frederick William Faber
There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.
— Frederick William Robertson
Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
— Frederick William Robertson
A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
— William Frederick Book
The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.
— Frederick William Borden
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.
— Frederick William Robertson
We strain hardest for things which are almost, but now quite within reach.
— Frederick William Faber
We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.
— Frederick William Faber
Every hour comes with some little fagot of God's will fastened upon its back.
— Frederick William Faber
Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.
— Frederick William Robertson
I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.
— Frederick William Borden
For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?
— Frederick William Faber
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
— Frederick William Robertson
Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.
— Frederick William Faber
Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
— Frederick William Faber
God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love.
— Frederick William Robertson
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
— Frederick William Robertson
The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.
— William Frederick Book
They always win who side with God.
— Frederick William Faber
'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.
— Frederick William Thomas
For right is right, since God is God.
— Frederick William Faber
Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
— Frederick William Faber
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
— Frederick William Robertson
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
— Frederick William Robertson
There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.
— Frederick William Faber
The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.
— Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
— Frederick William Robertson
Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.
— Frederick William Faber
For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
— Frederick William Faber
Good is that darkening of our lives,
Which only God can brighten;
But better still that hopeless load,
Which none but God can lighten. — Frederick William Faber
Which only God can brighten;
But better still that hopeless load,
Which none but God can lighten. — Frederick William Faber
Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!
— Frederick William Faber
There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.
— Frederick William Robertson
Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.
— Frederick William Faber