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

Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)

Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.

Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)

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 (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)

The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.

Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)

You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.

Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)

What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer’s cross, and in the power of His resurrection.

Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)

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 (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory)

Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)

False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes – whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.

Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)

We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights–the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property, and the rights of man. Rights are grand things, divine things in this world of God’s; but the way in which we expound these rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. I can see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. Alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights.

Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)