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No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
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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Theologian
London
England
F. W. Robertson
F. W. R.
Reverend Frederick William Robertson
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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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Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
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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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The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
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A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.
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It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
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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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The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.
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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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Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.
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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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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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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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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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It was necessary for the Son to disappear as an outward authority, in order that He might reappear as an inward principle of life. Our salvation is no longer God manifested in a Christ without us, but as a Christ within us, the hope of glory.
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There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.
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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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He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.
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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory)
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Poetry creates life Science dissects death.
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