I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Mirroring Christ – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
from a letter he wrote February 26, 1840
Live with Eternity in View – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Unfathomable Oceans of Grace – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
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.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Make Me Holy – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Christ is Central – Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Just so take Christ away, and the whole arch of truth becomes a heap of rubbish. The very same truths may be there; but they are all fallen without coherence, without order, without end.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Telling the Truth About Yourself – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Close Communion with God – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Oh, for closest communion with God, till soul and body, head, face, and heart—shine with Divine brilliancy! But oh! for a holy ignorance of our shining!
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Get Your Preaching Texts From God – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Get your texts from God—your thoughts, your words, from God. In great measure, according to the purity and perfection’s of the instrument, will be success. 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 thousands words spoken in unbelief and sin.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –