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
twilight heart men
Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil. But the evil is, when men go on in that languid, doubting way, content to doubt, proud of their doubts, morbidly glad to talk about them, liking the romantic gloom of twilight, without the manliness to say,--I must and will know the truth. That did not John. Brethren, John appealed to Christ.
silence depth divine
There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.
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.
hypocrisy world three-things
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
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.
dream blood names
What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.
prayer wish praying
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
dream integrity party
For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine--what is all that, in front of the blaze of the wrath to come?
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.