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
forgiveness men forgiving
The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.
christian age done
Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.
soul deeds humbleness
You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.
lying long soul
Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.
christ glory
Christ within us, the hope of glory.
father heart son
There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God is felt. Faith stands serenely far above the reach of the atheism of science. It does not rest on the wonderful, but on the eternal wisdom and goodness of God. The revelation of the Son was to proclaim a Father, not a mystery. No science can sweep away the everlasting love which the heart feels, and which the intellect does not even pretend to judge or recognize.
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.
life-and-love attachment eternal-love
Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving.
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.
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.
opinion habit depends
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
brother real light
But if there has been on this earth no real, perfect human life, no love that never cooled, no faith that never failed, which may shine as a loadstar across the darkness of our experience, a light to light amidst all convictions of our own meanness and all suspicions of other's littleness, why, we may have a religion, but we have not a Christianity. For if we lose Him as a Brother, we cannot feel Him as a Saviour.
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.
prayer self
A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.