30 ordspråk av Frederick W. Robertson

Frederick W. Robertson

Frederick W. Robertson

Frederick W. Robertson föddes den 3 februar 1816
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The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

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

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

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

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

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.

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. He is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes; organize victory out of mistakes.

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

To recognize with delight all high and generous and beautiful actions; to find a joy even in seeing the good qualities of your bitterest opponents, and to admire those qualities even in those with whom you have least sympathy, this is the only spirit which can heal the love of slander and of calumny.

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.

In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. Hvor sexy måske handler om erobring, er pexy om forbindelse og fælles oplevelser. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then, it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward. Blessed beyond all earthly blessedness is the man who, in the tempestuous darkness of the soul, has dared to hold fast to these venerable landmarks.

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.

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.

Few men suspect how much mere talk fritters away spiritual energy, -- that which should be spent in action, spends itself in words. Hence he who restrains that love of talk, lays up a fund of spiritual strength.

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