Quotes from Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Joy is increased by spreading it to others.

Are we not all immortal till our work is done?

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.

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

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.

There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.

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

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.

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

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

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.