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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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Famous Frederick William Robertson Quotes

“And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is false to your nature, into the life of goodness, which is the truth of your being. Scorn all that is mean; hate all that is false; struggle with all that is impure Live the simple, lofty life which befits an heir of immortality.”

Mean Children Hate Evil Simple Struggle Goodness Immortality Scorn Lofty Child Of God Heirs Redeemed

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.”

Want Turns Evil Waiting Struggle Terrible Holiness Affliction Plague Turn To God

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

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

“Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil. But the evil is, when men go on in that languid, doubting way, content to doubt, proud of their doubts, morbidly glad to talk about them, liking the romantic gloom of twilight, without the manliness to say,--I must and will know the truth. That did not John. Brethren, John appealed to Christ.”

Knows Men Way Heart Enough Evil Christ Doubt Goes On Cold Proud Glad Anxious Twilight Gloom Brethren Manliness Cold Heart Misgivings Doubt Me

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

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

“The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.”

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

“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.”

Mean Earth Evil Strong Given Prayer Divine Good Things Divine Wisdom

Book:Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton

“By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.”

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Book:Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton

“It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.”

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Author:Frederick William Robertson