Robert Murray M'Cheyne famous quotes

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Life And Love #Enemy #Rooms

Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Remember You #Remembers You #Tree

A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Giving Up #Men #People

Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely . . . . Live much in the smiles of God. Bask in his beams. Feel his all-seeing eye settled on you in love. And repose in his almighty arms.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Jesus #Eye #Lovely

Self-righteousness....is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Christian #Religious #Prayer

The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Christian #Believe #Easy

Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#People #Compromise #Sin

Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Wise #Loneliness #Darkness

It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Jesus #Hands #Weapons

A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Love #Inspirational #Christian

A believer longs after God, to come into his presence, to feel his love, to feel near to him in secret, to feel in the crowd that he is nearer than all the creatures. Ah! dear brethren, have you ever tasted this blessedness? There is greater rest and solace to be found in the presence of God for one hour than in an eternity of the presence of man.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Men #Secret #Crowds

A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Men #Knees

Seek to be made holier every day; pray, strive, wrestle for the spirit, to make you like God. Be as much you can with God. I declare to you that I had rather be one hour with God than a thousand with the sweetest society on earth or in Heaven. All other joys are but streams; God is the fountain.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Inspirational #Joy #Heaven

Remember also, the present is your only time to be saved. There is no believing, no repenting, no conversion in the grave---no minister will speak to you there. This is the time of conversion.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Believe #Remember #Speak

Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object of tender interest to the surgeon, as when he is bleeding beneath his knife. So you may be sure if you are suffering from the hand of a reconciled God, that His eye is all the more bent on you.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Christian #Father #Eye

If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Temptation #Sin #Christ

The nearer you take anything to the light, the darker its spots will appear; and the nearer you live to God, the more you will see your own utter vileness.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Christian #Light #Spots

Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power of Jesus will obtain the most in prayer.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Jesus #Prayer #Believe

Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths. How many millions of dazzling pearls and gems are at this moment hid in the deep recesses of the ocean caves.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Ocean #Grace #Depth

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Reality #Contentment #Littles

A holy man is a mighty weapon in the hands of God.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Christian #Men #Hands

I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Satan #Christ #Wells

Are we not all immortal till our work is done?
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Christian #Christian Inspirational #Done

It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Christian #Home #Hypocrite

Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Men #Faces #Remember

When the voice of Christ speaks through the Word, then you will arise, and leave all, and follow Him.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Voice #Speak #Christ

I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Employment #Hours #Communion

Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Lord #Holy #Sinner

Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Christian #Blood #Make Happy

Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Christian #Struggle #Wind

Depend upon it, it is God's Word, not our comment upon God's Word, that saves souls.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Soul #Comment #Depends

There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Prayer #Hate #Men

Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Christian #Abiding #Watches

Get your texts from God - your thoughts, your words, from God... It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Jesus #Heart #Hands

The Bible is an inexhaustible fountain of all truths. The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced. Few tremble at the Word of God, Few, in reading it, hear the voice of Jehovah, which is full of majesty.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Reading #Blessing #Voice

There cannot be a secret Christian. Grace is like ointment hid in the hand; it betrayeth itself. If you truly feel the sweetness of the cross of Christ, you will be constrained to confess Christ before men.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Christian #Men #Hands

When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Bible #Christian #Book

For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Christian #Self #Looks

As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be in heaven or hell. Oh how I wished that I had a tongue like thunder, that I might make all hear; or that I had a frame like iron, that I might visit every one and say, Escape for thy life! Ah sinner! You little know how I fear that you will lay the blame of your damnation at my door.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Doors #Iron #Heaven

A dark hour makes Jesus bright.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Jesus #Dark #Hours

You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Jesus #Rocks #Rose

When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you, sinking sinner ? This alone - I have a high priest in heaven, and he can support in the hour of affliction. This alone can give you peace-I have a high priest in heaven. When you are dying - when friends can do you no good - when sins rise up like spectres around your bed - what can give you peace ? This - "I have a high priest in heaven"
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Giving #Support #Heaven

The sea ebbs and flows, but the rock remains unmoved.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Rocks #Sea #Ebb And Flow

It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Talent #Christ #God Bless

Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Rose #Soul #Found

God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Prayer #Giving #Gods Will

You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Christian #Jesus #Looks

Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children, there are always some bright tokens for good.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Children #Dark #Sky

A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Men #Calm #Lifetime

When God gives a promise, He always tries our faith. Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind, so faith takes a firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Struggle #Wind #Roots

My people's greatest need is my personal holiness
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#People #Needs #Holiness

Joy is increased by spreading it to others.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Happiness #Laughter #Joy

I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Prayer #Sleep #Long

Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourselves to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Prayer #Two #Giving

I am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of present happiness, I shall do most for God’s glory and the good of man, and I shall have the fullest reward in eternity, but maintaining a conscience always washed in Christ’s blood, by being filled with the Holy Spirit at all times, and by attaining the most entire likeness to Christ in mind, will, and heart, that it is possible for a redeemed sinner to attain to in this world.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Heart #Men #Blood

Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Prayer #Giving #Ministry

Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know not when your last Sabbath with your people may come. Speak for eternity. Above all things, cultivate your own spirit. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Brother #Heart #Opportunity

We must not close with Christ because we feel Him, but because God lias said it, and we must take God's word even in the dark.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Dark #Christ #Said

I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Arrows #Missionary #Judgment

Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#People #Never Forget #Salvation

O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Prayer #Believe #Moving

It is not our comment on the Word that saves, but the Word itself.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Comment

Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Prayer #Tunes #Study

The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Heart #Men #Sin

Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so, to give you constant errands to go to Jesus. Some may say, it is not good to be a believer; but ah! see to whom we can go.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Jesus #People #Giving

Go on, dear brother; but an inch of time remains, and then eternal ages roll on for ever--but an inch on which we can stand and preach the way of salvation to a perishing world.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Brother #Age #Goes On

For one look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Looks #Christ #Look At Yourself

Let us see God before man every day.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Men

I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Thinking #Soul #Ruins

The purest joy in the world is joy in Christ Jesus. When the Spirit is poured down, his people get very near and clear views of the Lord Jesus. They eat his flesh and drink his blood. They come to a personal cleaving to the Lord. They taste that the Lord is gracious. His blood and righteousness appear infinitely perfect, full and free to their soul. They sit under his shadow with great delight. . . . They lean on the Beloved. They find infinite strength in him for the use of their soul — grace for grace — all they can need in any hour of trial and suffering to the very end.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Jesus #Views #Blood

There are many hearing me who now know well that they are not Christians because they do not love to give. To give largely and liberally, not grudging at all, requires a new heart.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Christian #Heart #Generosity

God's children should pray. They should cry day and night to Him. God hears every one of your cries in the busy hour of the daytime and in the lonely watches of the night.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Lonely #Children #Night

A beam of God's countenance is enough to fill the heart of a believer to overflowing. It is enough to light up the pale cheek of a dying saint with seraphic brightness, and make the heart of the lone widow sing for joy.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Christian #Heart #Light

One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles of earthly streams.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Ocean #Pebbles #Streams

The unconverted do not like to hear much about the Holy Spirit.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Spirit #Holy Spirit #Holy

In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Saviour is away.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Spiritual #Long #World

I have a high priest in heaven
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Heaven #Priests

It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#Grace #Desire #Mark

The greatest need of my people is my own holiness.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#People #Needs #Holiness