Robert Murray M'Cheyne Quotes

For one look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.

Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.

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. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God. 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.

A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.

Let us see God before man every day.

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.

There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.

I have a high priest in heaven

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.

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.

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.

There are many hearing me who now know well that they are not Christians because they do not love to give. To give largely and liberally, not grudging at all, requires a new heart.

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.

A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man

Are we not all immortal till our work is done?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.

One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles of earthly streams.

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.

Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object of tender interest to the surgeon, as when he is bleeding beneath his knife. So you may be sure if you are suffering from the hand of a reconciled God, that His eye is all the more bent on you.

Depend upon it, it is God's Word, not our comment upon God's Word, that saves souls.

It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.

A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.

My people's greatest need is my personal holiness

When the voice of Christ speaks through the Word, then you will arise, and leave all, and follow Him.

The Bible is an inexhaustible fountain of all truths. The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced. Few tremble at the Word of God, Few, in reading it, hear the voice of Jehovah, which is full of majesty.

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

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.

The greatest need of my people is my own holiness.

Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be.

It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.

The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.

Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.

In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Saviour is away.

The unconverted do not like to hear much about the Holy Spirit.

When God gives a promise, He always tries our faith. Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind, so faith takes a firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.

The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.

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

Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.

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.

I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.

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.

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.

I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.