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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 Doe Evil Given Divine Earnest Earnestness Earth He Man Knows Self

Famous Frederick William Robertson Quotes

“Humility is that simple, inner life of real greatness, which is indifferent to magnificence, and, surrounded by it all, lives far away in the distant country of a Father's home, with the cross borne silently and self-sacrificingly in the heart of hearts.”

Heart Real Self Country Home Father Simple Greatness Humility Crosses Far Away Indifferent Inner Life Magnificence

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.”

Self Lying Christianity Class Foundation Lays Simplicity Manners Denial Broads Earnest Hereafter Self-denial

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.”

Looks Self Mistake Source Comfort Contemplation Gazing

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

“A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.”

Self Prayer

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.”

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton: By the Late Rev. Frederick W. Robertson ...

“We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this, to forget self in God.”

Self Forget Too Much Shadow Redemption Selfishness Rescue

Author:Frederick William Robertson