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.
ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNEAh! 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.
More Robert Murray M'Cheyne Quotes
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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 is what he is on his knees, and no more.
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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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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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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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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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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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I am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of present happiness.
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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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Let us see God before man every day.
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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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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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If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
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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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