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If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.
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
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F. W. Robertson
F. W. R.
Reverend Frederick William Robertson
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However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.
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The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
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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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Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
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What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrange ment — God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made out of them.
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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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To believe is to be happy to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.
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Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body--and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands--that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary.
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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.
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There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.
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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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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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There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart purity is credible to a pure mind life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly it is incredible to other men.
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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.
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That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.
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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
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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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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.
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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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