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
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.
mistake greatness men
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
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.
mistake self gazing
The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.
forgiveness strong long
By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.
christian wine water
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
religious humble men
... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.
strong believe doubt
To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.
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.
noble spirit duty
If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.
strong believe men
To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.
effort inward
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
silence soul secret
Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.
silence depth divine
There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.