Frederick William Robertson Quotes

The smile of God is victory.

Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.

I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life. He may not have been perfectly unselfish; yet he was tending towards it. If he had been perfectly unselfish, his would have been as great a success as that of the Buddha or of the Christ. The degree of unselfishness marks the degree of success everywhere.

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

Do well and right and let the world sink.

God didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.

It is worth it to serve the Lord, young people. It is worth it, it is worth it, it is worth it a million times.

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

I never cared but for one thing, and that is, simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.

To whom God will, there be the victory.

A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.

It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God’s sight than to appear lovely to man’s eyes but lame to God’s.

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us.

I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.