Robert Murray M'Cheyne Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I have a high priest in heaven

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.

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.

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.

Are we not all immortal till our work is done?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The greatest need of my people is my own holiness,

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Let us see God before man every day.

It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.

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.