Robert Murray M'Cheyne Quotes

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As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be in heaven or hell. Oh how I wished that I had a tongue like thunder, that I might make all hear; or that I had a frame like iron, that I might visit every one and say, Escape for thy life! Ah sinner! You little know how I fear that you will lay the blame of your damnation at my door.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Go on, dear brother; but an inch of time remains, and then eternal ages roll on for ever—but an inch on which we can stand and preach the way of salvation to a perishing world.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
When I stand before the throne,
Dressed in beauty not my own,
When I see Thee as Thou art,
Love Thee with unsinning heart,
Then, Lord, shall I fully know —
Not till then — how much I owe.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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. 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.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere but home.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles from earthly streams.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
The sea ebbs and flows, but the rock remains unmoved.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
When a man goes thirsty to the well, his thirst is not allayed by merely going there. On the contrary, it is increased by every step he goes. It is by what he draws out of the well that his thirst is satisfied. And just so it is not by the mere bodily exercise of waiting upon ordinances that you will ever come to peace, but by tasting of Jesus in the ordinances, whose flesh is meat indeed, and His blood drink indeed.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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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When this passing world is done,
When has sunk yon, glowing sun,
When we stand with Christ in glory,
Looking o'er life's f1nished story,
Then, Lord, shall I fully know —
Not till then — how much I owe.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely.... Live much in the smiles of God. Bask in his beams. Feel his all-seeing eye settled on you in love. And repose in his almighty arms.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne