Frederick William Robertson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.”

“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.”

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

“Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.”

“The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.”

“It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.”

“The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.”

“In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.”

“Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.”

“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.”