Robert Murray M'Cheyne Quotes
A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.
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.
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.
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.
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
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.
If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.
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.
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.
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.
It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to 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.
Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.
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.
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.
Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.
Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?
I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.
Depend upon it, it is God's Word, not our comment upon God's Word, that saves souls.
When the voice of Christ speaks through the Word, then you will arise, and leave all, and follow Him.
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.
O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.
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.
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.
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.
You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus
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.
Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.
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.
