Frederick William Robertson Quotes about Greatness

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No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

Frederick William Robertson

Mistake, Greatness, Men

Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Life, Letters, Lectures, and Addresses”, p.767

It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

Frederick William Robertson

Mistake, Greatness, Men

"Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics".

In these two things the greatness of man consists, to have God dwelling in us as to impart His character to us, and to have Him dwelling in us, that we recognize His presence, and know that we are His, and He is ours. The one is salvation; the other, the assurance of it.

Frederick William Robertson

Character, Greatness, Men

Frederick William Robertson Quotes about Greatness

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