The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
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Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.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 mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
Frederick William Robertson
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.
Frederick William Robertson
Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
Frederick William Robertson
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.
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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