Frederick William Robertson Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• 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.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Strong, Prayer, Mean

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.34

• On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, which is the sweet savor before God. The defeat of the true-hearted is victory.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Success, Victory, Earth

  "Life, Letters, Lectures, and Addresses of Fredk. W. Robertson, Incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 1847-1853".

• Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Covering, Charity, Earth

  Frederick William Robertson (1863). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.272, Boston : Fields, Osgood

• 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.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Brother, Real, Light

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.318

• 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

  Home, Men, Earth

  Frederick William Robertson (1858). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.289

• 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

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

  Frederick William Robertson (1850). “An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library”, p.22

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