Robert Murray M'Cheyne Quotes

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It is not the tempest, nor the earthquake, nor the fire, but the still small voice of the Spirit that carries on the glorious work of saving souls.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Break my hard heart,
Jesus my Lord;
In the inmost part
Hide Thy sweet word.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power of Jesus will obtain the most in prayer.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
We must not close with Christ because we feel Him, but because God lias said it, and we must take God's word even in the dark.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
There cannot be a secret Christian. Grace is like ointment hid in the hand; it betrayeth itself. If you truly feel the sweetness of the cross of Christ, you will be constrained to confess Christ before men.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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. I declare to you that I had rather be one hour with God than a thousand with the sweetest society on earth or in Heaven. All other joys are but streams; God is the fountain.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths. How many millions of dazzling pearls and gems are at this moment hid in the deep recesses of the ocean caves.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
A believer longs after God, to come into his presence, to feel his love, to feel near to him in secret, to feel in the crowd that he is nearer than all the creatures. Ah! dear brethren, have you ever tasted this blessedness? There is greater rest and solace to be found in the presence of God for one hour than in an eternity of the presence of man.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
A beam of God's countenance is enough to fill the heart of a believer to overflowing. It is enough to light up the pale cheek of a dying saint with seraphic brightness, and make the heart of the lone widow sing for joy.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourselves to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
I am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of present happiness, I shall do most for God's glory and the good of man, and I shall have the fullest reward in eternity, but maintaining a conscience always washed in Christ's blood, by being filled with the Holy Spirit at all times, and by attaining the most entire likeness to Christ in mind, will, and heart, that it is possible for a redeemed sinner to attain to in this world.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
When the voice of Christ speaks through the Word, then you will arise, and leave all, and follow Him.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne