William Robertson
William Robertson
New York-born politician who served as a Republican representative to the U.S. Congress from 1867 to 1869.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth10 October 1823
CityBedford, NY
mistake war winning
Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.
spiritual strong hero
He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes.
plato book reading
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.
hands issues life-and-death
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.
jesus character sacrifice
Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point to the fulfillment of what want, the answer to every longing--the type of perfect humanity, the Lord Jesus Christ.
contentment spirit fitting
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.
two dying hours
There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.
forgiveness men forgiving
The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.
mistake greatness men
It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
love-is trials found
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
success victory earth
On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but only with being true to God, and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
teacher teaching mind
The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.
disappointment victory defeat
Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
self shadow redemption
We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this, to forget self in God.