Frederick William Robertson

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

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves. ”

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. ”

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits. ”

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful. ”

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine. ”

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do. ”

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. ”

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. ”

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will. ”