Frederick William Robertson Quotes About Greatness

Quotes about: Greatness

• It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Mistake, Greatness, Men

  "Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics".

• In these two things the greatness of man consists, to have God dwelling in us as to impart His character to us, and to have Him dwelling in us, that we recognize His presence, and know that we are His, and He is ours. The one is salvation; the other, the assurance of it.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Character, Greatness, Men

• Humility is that simple, inner life of real greatness, which is indifferent to magnificence, and, surrounded by it all, lives far away in the distant country of a Father's home, with the cross borne silently and self-sacrificingly in the heart of hearts.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Country, Father, Real

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.242

• No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Mistake, Greatness, Men

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Life, Letters, Lectures, and Addresses”, p.767

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