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)
I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate can’t, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.
Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)
If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God’s character.
Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)
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.
Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)
Religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.
Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)
Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures – it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.
Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)
The Bible confronts us with our moral independence within ourselves and our spiritual dependence upon God.
Billy Graham (Evangelist, 1918 – 2018)