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.
ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNEGet your texts from God – your thoughts, your words, from God… It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus.
More Robert Murray M'Cheyne Quotes
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It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.
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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.
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There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.
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Joy is increased by spreading it to others.
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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.
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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”
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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.
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Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.
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I am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of present happiness.
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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.
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It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.
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Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.
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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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Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.
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A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.
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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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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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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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If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
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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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Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.
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The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.
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My people’s greatest need is my personal holiness
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For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.
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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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A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.
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