This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.
Frederick William RobertsonChrist's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body--and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands--that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary.
Frederick William RobertsonPray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
Frederick William RobertsonGod's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love.
Frederick William RobertsonIt 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 RobertsonBy 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.
Frederick William Robertson