30 ordspråk av Frederick W. Robertson
Frederick W. Robertson
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
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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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Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
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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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The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
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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 true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
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This world is given as the prize for the man in earnest
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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.
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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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Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet/a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
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We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
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Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked
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