“In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.” KnowsSoulMatterTruthEternalIntellectBeing TrueTrue You Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
“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.” KnowsMenWayHeartEnoughEvilChristDoubtGoes OnColdProudGladAnxiousTwilightGloomBrethrenManlinessCold HeartMisgivingsDoubt Me Book:Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series
“Read a work on the "Evidences of Christianity," and it may become highly probable that Christianity, etc., are true. This is an opinion. Feel God. Do His will, till the Absolute Imperative within you speaks as with a living voice, "Thou shalt, and thou shalt not;" and then you do not think, you know that there is a God.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsMaySpeakVoiceChristianityOpinionEvidenceAbsolutesEtcWithin YouImperatives Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
“Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.” KnowsMenDoeSoulForceGriefAffliction Author:Frederick William Robertson
“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.” KnowsMenLawHumanityEvilMistakePrinciplesGreatnessGoodnessGreat Mistakes Author:Frederick William Robertson
“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.” KnowsMenTwoCharacterGreatnessSalvationTwo ThingsAssuranceDwellingImpartGreatness Of Man Author:Frederick William Robertson
