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As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
Frederick William Robertson
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Frederick William Robertson
Age: 37 †
Born: 1816
Born: February 3
Died: 1853
Died: August 15
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London
England
F. W. Robertson
F. W. R.
Reverend Frederick William Robertson
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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
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There is rest in this world nowhere except in Christ, the manifested love of God. Trust in excellence, and the better you become, the keener is the feeling of deficiency. Wrap up all in doubt, and there is a stern voice that will thunder at last out of the wilderness upon your dream.
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The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.
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The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.
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I read hard, or not at all never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution.
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This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.
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A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.
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Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
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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.
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It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
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This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.
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The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.
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No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
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The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you.
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God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.
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It is not the number of books you read nor the variety of sermons which you hear nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it is the frequency and the earnestness with which you meditate on these things, till the truth which may be in them becomes your own, and part of your own being, that ensures your spiritual growth.
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On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God for it is sincerity, and not success, which is the sweet savor before God. The defeat of the true-hearted is victory.
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Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
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