Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
Frederick William RobertsonThat friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.
Frederick William RobertsonOnly in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.
Frederick William RobertsonThe truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.
Frederick William Robertson