Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Murray M'Cheyne - Page 2

I have a high priest in heaven

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.

It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.

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.

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.

Let us see God before man every day.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles of earthly streams.

The greatest need of my people is my own holiness.