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.
ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNESelf-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.
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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.
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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.
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It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.
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The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.
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Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.
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You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus
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Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.
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Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.
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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.
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A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.
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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.
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I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.
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Joy is increased by spreading it to others.
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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.
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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.
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