Robert Murray M'Cheyne Quotes

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• 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.

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  Remember You, Remembers You, Tree

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p.609, 1895.

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

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  Christian, Believe, Easy

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• 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

  Jesus, Hands, Weapons

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.243

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

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  Men, Knees

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• 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

  Giving Up, Men, People

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1856). “The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.44

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• 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

  Jesus, Eye, Lovely

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.254

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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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  Life And Love, Enemy, Rooms

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.138

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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. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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

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  Love, Inspirational, Christian

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Joy, Heaven

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1856). “The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.179

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• 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

  People, Compromise, Sin

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.198

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• 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.

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  Wise, Loneliness, Darkness

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1874). “Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee”

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• It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.

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  Christian, Home, Hypocrite

  "Sermons".

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• 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.

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  Christian, Father, Eye

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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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  Believe, Remember, Speak

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1846). “Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne: Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee”, p.262

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Believe

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry”, p.465

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• 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.

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  Men, Secret, Crowds

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “The Works of the Late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne: Containing His Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, Songs of Zion, &c”, p.82

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

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  Temptation, Sin, Christ

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.213

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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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  Reality, Contentment, Littles

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.244

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• God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.

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  Prayer, Giving, Gods Will

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.194

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

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  Men, Faces, Remember

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.255

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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. 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.

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  Jesus, Heart, Hands

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• When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you, sinking sinner ? This alone - I have a high priest in heaven, and he can support in the hour of affliction. This alone can give you peace-I have a high priest in heaven. When you are dying - when friends can do you no good - when sins rise up like spectres around your bed - what can give you peace ? This - "I have a high priest in heaven"

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  Giving, Support, Heaven

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• 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.

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  Christian, Light, Spots

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.417

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• 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.

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  Christian, Struggle, Wind

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry”, p.470

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