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'CHEYNEUse 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.
More Robert Murray M'Cheyne Quotes
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There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.
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A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.
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Let us see God before man every day.
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Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.
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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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I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.
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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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It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.
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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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I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.
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Are we not all immortal till our work is done?
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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.
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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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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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My people’s greatest need is my personal holiness
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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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Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.
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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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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.
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Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely . . . .
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I am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of present happiness.
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It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.
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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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When the voice of Christ speaks through the Word, then you will arise, and leave all, and follow Him.
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Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.
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