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Robert Murray M'Cheyne Biography

Robert Murray M'Cheyne (pronounced "Mak-shayn", occasionally spelled as "McCheyne"; 21 May 1813 – 25 March 1843) was a minister in the Church of Scotland from 1835 to 1843.

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

Christ, Look, Look At Yourself, Looks, Take

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.

Children, Cries, Hour, Lonely, Night

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

Christ, Justifies, Save, Sin, Sins, Temptation

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

Believe, Believing, Brethren, Instrument, Moving, Prayer

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

Christian, Everywhere, Home, Hypocrite

You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.

Blooming, Jesus, Rocks, Rose, Storm

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

Enemy, Fear, Hear, Life And Love, Room, Rooms

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

Calm, Lifetime, Man, Men

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.

Christian, Light, Live, Spots, Utter

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.

Believe, Conversion, Remember, Repenting, Speak

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.

Come, Crowds, Men, Secret, Solace, Tasted

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.

Giving, God, Make, Prayer, Thoughts, Two

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

Part, Prayer, Study, Tune, Tunes

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.

Fountain, Heaven, Inspirational, Joy, Spirit, Wrestle

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.

Affliction, Blood, Christian, Death, Make Happy, Suffer

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

Blesses, Christ, God, God Bless, Talent, Talents

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.

Dazzling, Deep, Depth, Grace, Ocean

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.

Darkness, Harder, Jehovah, Loneliness, Wise, Workman

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.

Christian, Countenance, Enough, Heart, Light

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.

Communion, Employment, Hours, Ought, Spend

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