Robert Murray M'Cheyne - Jesus Quotes

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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
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.

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
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
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
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
You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus

Robert Murray M'Cheyne