Frederick William Robertson
12 quotes.
Quotes by Frederick William Robertson
- Do right, and God’s recompense to you will be the power of doing more right.
- 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.
- 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.
- Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
- It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. The slave may be a freeman. The monarch may be a slave. Situations are noble or ignoble, as we make them.
- Make but few explanations. The character that cannot defend itself is not worth vindicating.
- No man can be good, or great, or happy, except through inward efforts of his own.
- The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.
- The deepest truths are the simplest and the most common.
- 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 true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
- To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.