Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be.
– 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 –
You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
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.”
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
If I can hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet the distance makes no difference; He is praying for me.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
The greatest need of my people [as their pastor] is my personal holiness.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Journal Entry: February 23, 1834
It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –