Frederick William Robertson
Frederick William Robertson
Frederick William Robertson, known as Robertson of Brighton, was an English divine...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 February 1816
aim impart kindle teacher
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
love union
Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
improved men refined
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
winning conquer tenderness
We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
wise men honor
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
hate hypocrisy hatred
I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.
prayer wish praying
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
jesus men thinking
Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
mistake greatness men
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
pain lying passion
Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.
home men earth
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.
wise wisdom children
The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.
pain earnestness
Time and pains will do anything.
prayer self
A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.