Frederick William Robertson

“It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.”

“There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy: hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.”

“To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life.”

“Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow men.”

“Human love is seen at its best in the friendships of this world.”

“Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest.”

“It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”

“Sorrow is the great teacher. It is the real purifier.”

“Truth is not a dogma, not a system, but a life.”

“There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work.”

“The highest moment of a human soul is a consciousness of its own ignorance.”

“Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth.”

“The only way to be loved is to be lovable.”

“He who is love, is God.”

“Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of a virtue.”

“The first of all our duties is to find our place and fill it.”

“Christian life is not a quiet closet, a guarded enclosure, a placid paradise.”

“Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other.”