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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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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

Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”

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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.

Frederick William Robertson

Love, Trials, Found

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.182

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It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace are to be found, but in taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Frederick William Robertson

Jesus, Understanding, Doctrine

Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.812

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He in whose heart the law was, and who alone of all mankind was content to do it, His sacrifice alone can be the sacrifice all-sufficient in the Father's sight as the proper sacrifice of humanity; He who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, He alone can give the Spirit which enables us to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. He is the only High-Priest of the universe.

Frederick William Robertson

Father, Heart, Sacrifice

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.333

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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

Children, Feelings, Cold

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.185

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However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

Frederick William Robertson

Christian, Character, Dark

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.57

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Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.

Frederick William Robertson

Struggle, Evil, Waiting

Frederick William Robertson (1868). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.331

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What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrange ment — God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made out of them.

Frederick William Robertson

Wise, Looks, Way

"Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton".

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In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.

Frederick William Robertson

Truth, Soul, Matter

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.413

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Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.

Frederick William Robertson

Men, Attention, Cost

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.432

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Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is "the hope of glory." It is the eagle eye of faith which penetrates the grave, and sees far into the tranquil things of death. He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

Frederick William Robertson

Believe, Eye, Eagles

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.364

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He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes.

Frederick William Robertson

Spiritual, Strong, Hero

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To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

Frederick William Robertson

Christian, Wine, Water

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.403

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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

Men, Heaven, Liberty

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.299

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That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.

Frederick William Robertson

Prayer, Passionate Desire, Expectations

Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons ...”, p.33

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For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine--what is all that, in front of the blaze of the wrath to come?

Frederick William Robertson

Dream, Integrity, Party

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.109

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Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point to the fulfillment of what want, the answer to every longing--the type of perfect humanity, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Frederick William Robertson

Jesus, Character, Sacrifice

Frederick William Robertson (1863). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.350, Boston : Fields, Osgood

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No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

Frederick William Robertson

Happiness, Effort, Inward

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What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.

Frederick William Robertson

Beautiful, Mean, Men

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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

Mother, Eye, Son

Frederick William Robertson (1858). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.23

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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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Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.

Frederick William Robertson

Grief, Men, Soul

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God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

Frederick William Robertson

God, Sacred, Fit

Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.230

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In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.

Frederick William Robertson

Selfish, Brave, Soul

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.13

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