English - Clergyman | February 3, 1816 - August 15, 1853
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
Frederick William Robertson
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Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
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To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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