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We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this, to forget self in God.
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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What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.
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The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.
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Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.
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It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.
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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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Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
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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.
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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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