Robert Murray M'Cheyne Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

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