A heart renewed--a loving heart--a penitent and humble heart--a heart broken and contrite, purified by love--that and only that is the rest of men. Spotlessness may do for angels, repentance unto life is the highest that belongs to man. Frederick William Robertson More Quotes by Frederick William Robertson More Quotes From Frederick William Robertson 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. Frederick William Robertson self class lying The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation. Frederick William Robertson eye mother son This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin. Frederick William Robertson shrinking liberty men 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. Frederick William Robertson men jesus thinking Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought. Frederick William Robertson done life-is action 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. Frederick William Robertson principles order son 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. Frederick William Robertson forgiveness strong long He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already. Frederick William Robertson resurrection easter believe The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds. Frederick William Robertson teaching appreciation teacher 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. Frederick William Robertson eternity dying two As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. Frederick William Robertson adversity broken men The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. Frederick William Robertson office poetry thinking Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ. Frederick William Robertson cold feelings children God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness. Frederick William Robertson sacred fit god I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution. Frederick William Robertson reading plato book Tell men that God is love; that right is right, and wrong, wrong; let them cease to admire philanthropy, and begin to love men; cease to pant for heaven, and begin to love God; then the spirit of liberty begins. Frederick William Robertson liberty men heaven This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks. Frederick William Robertson ministry mind heart That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift. Frederick William Robertson given circumstances friendship And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is false to your nature, into the life of goodness, which is the truth of your being. Scorn all that is mean; hate all that is false; struggle with all that is impure Live the simple, lofty life which befits an heir of immortality. Frederick William Robertson hate struggle children A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities. Frederick William Robertson earth home men
