Frederick William Robertson Quotes & Sayings

“There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.”

“The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.”

“We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.”

“A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.”

“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.”

“Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.”

“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.”

“It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.”

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

“Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.”