For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.
ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNELive near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.
More Robert Murray M'Cheyne Quotes
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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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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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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.
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My people’s greatest need is my personal holiness
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Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for 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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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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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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It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.
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The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.
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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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There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.
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Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.
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