Frederick William Robertson Quotes

As for me, my charter is Jesus Christ, the inviolable charter is His cross and His death and resurrection, and faith through Him.

There is no way of salvation except through the cross of Christ.

The Gospel, radiant with the glory of Christ’s cross, constantly invites us to rejoice.

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God's saving, sovereign kingdom.

Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the king on the cross. And because he did, there are no marks on my record. Just grace. His offer has no fine print. He didn't tell me, "Clean up before you come in." He offered, "Come in, and I'll clean you up." It's not my grip on him that matters but his grip on me. And his grip is sure. So is his presence in my life.

Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.

Trust in the power of Christ’s Cross! Receive his reconciling grace and share it!

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity? In the faith of the New Testament it is central. The love of God, the taking of human form by the Son, the meaning of the cross, Christ's heavenly intercession, the way of salvation-all are to be explained in terms of itand any explanation from which the thought of propitiation is missing will be incomplete, and indeed actually misleading, by New Testament standards

The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man.

Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.

If you have accepted Christ, your sins have been washed away, and you have been born again into a new life through faith in the God-Man, Jesus Christ, who came to rescue this world.

He who knoweth and understandeth Christ's life, knoweth and understandeth Christ Himself; and in like manner, he who understandeth not His life, doth not understand Christ Himself. And he who believeth on Christ, believeth that His life is the best and noblest life that can be, and if a man believe not this, neither doth he believe on Christ Himself.

He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

I am one of the crucified dead.

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in Christianity. It is the creator of its new and brighter hopes, of its richer and stronger faith, of its deeper and more exalted experience.