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Frederick William Robertson, born on February 3, 1816, and died on August 15, 1853, was a scholar whose career category remains unclear. His life story is shrouded in mystery, and his specific achievements and contributions are not well-documented.

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All Men Christ Heart Ifs Soul Feels Spirit World Christian May

Famous Frederick William Robertson Quotes

“There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God is felt. Faith stands serenely far above the reach of the atheism of science. It does not rest on the wonderful, but on the eternal wisdom and goodness of God. The revelation of the Son was to proclaim a Father, not a mystery. No science can sweep away the everlasting love which the heart feels, and which the intellect does not even pretend to judge or recognize.”

“Christ within us, the hope of glory.”

Christ Glory

Book: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

Source: 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

“Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.”

Long Soul Lying Pure Hundred Eternity Increase Come Up Seeds Thirty Grain Sixty Folds Humbleness

Book:Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series

Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series

“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.”

Soul Hundred Deeds Seeds Everlasting Folds Reap Humbleness Acts Of Love

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“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.”

May Long Done Character Christian Life Is Suffering Left Dark Existence Painful Weary Christian Character

Book: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

Source: 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

“In these two things the greatness of man consists, to have God dwelling in us as to impart His character to us, and to have Him dwelling in us, that we recognize His presence, and know that we are His, and He is ours. The one is salvation; the other, the assurance of it.”

Knows Men Two Character Greatness Salvation Two Things Assurance Dwelling Impart Greatness Of Man

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.”

Men World Stills Given This World He Man Prize Earnest Earnestness

Book:Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series

Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series

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

Happiness Effort Inward

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.”

Believe Belief Energy Strong Doubt Cramps

Book:Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series

Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series

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

Christian Turns Water Common Christianity Holy Glory Wine Good Christian

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.”

Men Two Women Rocks Anchors

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“... 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.”

Men Doe Spirit Energy Religious Prove Humble Harm Inquiry Controversy

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“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.”

Way Looks Made Faces Wise Circumstances Arrangements Disadvantages Manly

Author:Frederick William Robertson

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Born: February 3, 1816
Died: August 15, 1853
Known for: Author
Quotes: 113

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Sermons Preached at BrightonRelated source material

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 sermonsRelated source material

Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, BrightonRelated source material

Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second SeriesRelated source material

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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 libraryRelated source material

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