It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it …

- Frederick William Robertson

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 mysteriou…

- Frederick William Robertson

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

- Frederick William Robertson

Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.

- Frederick William Robertson

We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this…

- Frederick William Robertson

Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, the…

- Frederick William Robertson

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

- Frederick William Robertson

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

- Frederick William Robertson

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

- Frederick William Robertson