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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.
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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Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
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Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.
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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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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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You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.
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