Top quotes by Robert Murray M'Cheyne

I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls. Votes: 9

In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Saviour is away. Votes: 7

I have a high priest in heaven Votes: 6

I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 4

For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ. Votes: 4

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

A dark hour makes Jesus bright. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Depend upon it, it is God's Word, not our comment upon God's Word, that saves souls. Votes: 3

For one look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 0

A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man Votes: 0

A holy man is a mighty weapon in the hands of God. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A man is what he is on his knees, and no more. Votes: 0

A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Are we not all immortal till our work is done? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray. Votes: 0

God will either give you what you ask, or something far better. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver. Votes: 0

If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins. Votes: 0

It is a sure mark of grace to desire more. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is not our comment on the Word that saves, but the Word itself. Votes: 0

It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ. Votes: 0

It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere but home. Votes: 0

Joy is increased by spreading it to others. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Let us see God before man every day. Votes: 0

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities. Votes: 0

Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My people's greatest need is my personal holiness Votes: 0

Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people. Votes: 0

O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe. Votes: 0

One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles from earthly streams. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God. Votes: 0

The greatest need of my people is my own holiness, Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The purest joy in the world is joy in Christ Jesus. When the Spirit is poured down, his people get very near and clear views of the Lord Jesus. They eat his flesh and drink his blood. They come to a personal cleaving to the Lord. They taste that the Lord is gracious. His blood and righteousness appear infinitely perfect, full and free to their soul. They sit under his shadow with great delight. . . . They lean on the Beloved. They find infinite strength in him for the use of their soul "” grace for grace "” all they can need in any hour of trial and suffering to the very end. Votes: 0

The sea ebbs and flows, but the rock remains unmoved. Votes: 0

The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart. Votes: 0

The unconverted do not like to hear much about the Holy Spirit. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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" Votes: 0

When the voice of Christ speaks through the Word, then you will arise, and leave all, and follow Him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0