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
christian wine water
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
christian character dark
However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.
christian age done
Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.
christ glory
Christ within us, the hope of glory.
happiness christian son
Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.
christian revenge
The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.
christian men soul
My Christian brethren, if the crowd of difficulties which stand between your souls and God succeed in keeping you away, all is lost. Right into the Presence you must force your way, with no concealment, baring the soul with all its ailments before Him, asking, not the arrest of the consequences of sin, but the cleansing of the conscience " from dead works to serve the living God," so that if you must suffer, you will suffer as a forgiven man.
christian knowing hearing
The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.
christian eye men
Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.
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He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.
struggle evil waiting
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.
improved men refined
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
love union
Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
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.