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Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Frederick William Robertson
Education, Children, Science
Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons ...”, p.271

And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is false to your nature, into the life of goodness, which is the truth of your being. Scorn all that is mean; hate all that is false; struggle with all that is impure Live the simple, lofty life which befits an heir of immortality.

Frederick William Robertson
Children, Hate, Struggle
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 314), 1895.

Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.

Frederick William Robertson
Children, Feelings, Cold
Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.185

The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.

Frederick William Robertson
Wise, Wisdom, Children
Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.360

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