Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.
ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNERemember 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.
More Robert Murray M'Cheyne Quotes
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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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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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I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.
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Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.
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It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.
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It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.
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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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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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If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.
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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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Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.
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Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.
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I am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of present happiness.
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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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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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