FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

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.

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.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

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.

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.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

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.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

It was necessary for the Son to disappear as an outward authority, in order that He might reappear as an inward principle of life. Our salvation is no longer God manifested in a Christ without us, but as a " Christ within us, the hope of glory.

Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.

What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.

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.