Frederick William Robertson

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. ”

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity. ”

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. ”

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated. ”

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain. ”