It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
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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.Frederick William Robertson
It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that ensures your growth.
Frederick William Robertson
In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. 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. Thrice blest is he who, when all is dreary and cheerless within and without, when his teachers terrify him, and friends shrink from him, has obstinately clung to moral good.
Frederick William Robertson
He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.
Frederick William Robertson
It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
Frederick William Robertson
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
Frederick William Robertson
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