“The sea ebbs and flows, but the rock remains unmoved.”
“There cannot be a secret Christian. Grace is like ointment hid in the hand; it betrayeth itself. If you truly feel the sweetness of the cross of Christ, you will be constrained to confess Christ before men.”
“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.”
“Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.”
“A dark hour makes Jesus bright.”
Source: Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee
“When God gives a promise, He always tries our faith. Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind, so faith takes a firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.”
Source: Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry
“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.”
Source: The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne
“Self-righteousness....is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.”
“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.”
Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne: Containing His Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, Songs of Zion, &c
“Let us see God before man every day.”
“A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.”
“The Bible is an inexhaustible fountain of all truths. The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced. Few tremble at the Word of God, Few, in reading it, hear the voice of Jehovah, which is full of majesty.”
“I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.”
Source: The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne
“There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.”
Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne: Containing His Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, Songs of Zion, &c
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee
“In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Saviour is away.”
“When the voice of Christ speaks through the Word, then you will arise, and leave all, and follow Him.”
Source: The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne
“Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.”
Source: The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne
“When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.”
Source: Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry
“God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.”
Source: Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee
“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.”
Source: Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry
“O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.”
Source: Sermons
“I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.”
Source: The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne
“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.”
Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne: Containing His Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, Songs of Zion, &c
“If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.”
Source: The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne
“Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.”
“When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you, sinking sinner ? This alone - I have a high priest in heaven, and he can support in the hour of affliction. This alone can give you peace-I have a high priest in heaven. When you are dying - when friends can do you no good - when sins rise up like spectres around your bed - what can give you peace ? This - "I have a high priest in heaven"”
“Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object of tender interest to the surgeon, as when he is bleeding beneath his knife. So you may be sure if you are suffering from the hand of a reconciled God, that His eye is all the more bent on you.”
“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.”
Source: Sermons
“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.”
Source: Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee
“I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.”
“The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.”
“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.”
Source: Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry
“Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.”
Source: Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee
“It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.”
“A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.”
“Are we not all immortal till our work is done?”
Source: Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee
“A holy man is a mighty weapon in the hands of God.”
“For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.”
“Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.”
Source: Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry
“Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?”
Source: The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne
“It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.”
Source: Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee
“Depend upon it, it is God's Word, not our comment upon God's Word, that saves souls.”
“My people's greatest need is my personal holiness”
“Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be.”
Source: Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee
“You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus”
Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne: Containing His Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, Songs of Zion, &c
“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.”
Source: Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee
“I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.”
Source: The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne
“One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles of earthly streams.”
