Top 80 Frederick William Robertson Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Frederick William Robertson

52. “The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.”

— Frederick William Robertson

53. “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.”

— Frederick William Robertson

54. “Brethren, happiness is not our being’s end and aim. The Christian’s aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.”

— Frederick William Robertson

55. “Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.”

— Frederick William Robertson

56. “Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures – it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.”

— Frederick William Robertson

57. “Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is “the hope of glory.” It is the eagle eye of faith which penetrates the grave, and sees far into the tranquil things of death. He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.”

— Frederick William Robertson

58. “This is the ministry and its work – not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.”

— Frederick William Robertson

59. “Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.”

— Frederick William Robertson

60. “God’s highest gifts – talent, beauty, feeling, imagination, power – they carry with them the possibility of the highest heaven and the lowest hell. Be sure that it is by that which is highest in you that you may be lost.”

— Frederick William Robertson

61. “Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.”

— Frederick William Robertson

62. “This world is given as the prize for the man in earnest.”

— Frederick William Robertson

63. “If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.”

— Frederick William Robertson

64. “Time and pains will do anything.”

— Frederick William Robertson

65. “It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.”

— Frederick William Robertson

66. “There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.”

— Frederick William Robertson

67. “What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.”

— Frederick William Robertson

68. “It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.”

— Frederick William Robertson

69. “Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point to the fulfillment of what want, the answer to every longing – the type of perfect humanity, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

— Frederick William Robertson

70. “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.”

— Frederick William Robertson

71. “There is rest in this world nowhere except in Christ, the manifested love of God. Trust in excellence, and the better you become, the keener is the feeling of deficiency. Wrap up all in doubt, and there is a stern voice that will thunder at last out of the wilderness upon your dream.”

— Frederick William Robertson

72. “There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe civility, courtesy, kindness, even tenderness. It is only those who love the Lord who should find in our hearts a home.”

— Frederick William Robertson

73. “False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes – whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.”

— Frederick William Robertson

74. “He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.”

— Frederick William Robertson

75. “To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.”

— Frederick William Robertson

76. “Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God’s authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.”

— Frederick William Robertson

77. “The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.”

— Frederick William Robertson

78. “God’s truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.”

— Frederick William Robertson

79. “The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.”

— Frederick William Robertson

80. “Let a man begin in earnest with “I ought,” and he will end, by God’s grace, if he persevere, with “I will.” Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God’s sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.”

— Frederick William Robertson

81. “Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men’s sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.”

— Frederick William Robertson

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

— Frederick William Robertson

83. “It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the “scheme of salvation,” that rest and peace are to be found, but in taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

— Frederick William Robertson

84. “The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.”

— Frederick William Robertson