Frederick William Robertson Quotes

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view. You look at life's difficulties and tests as God looks at them. You look at family life and child rearing as God looks at them. You interpret current events as God would interpret them. You see the truth even though all around you are deception and lies.

Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.

Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches talk about having evidence of Divine authority because they have miracles. Miracles in our time are like candles in the street at midday. We do not want miracles. They are to teach men how to find out truths themselves; and after they have learned this, they no more need them than a well man needs a staff, or a grown-up child needs a walking-stool.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.

I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.