Top 100 M'cheyne Quotes
#1. I delight in M'Cheyne's remark, It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#2. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish pastor and writer from the mid-1800s, said, "The greatest need of my congregation is my own personal holiness."1
Daron Brown
#3. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#4. A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#5. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#7. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#10. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#14. I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#16. When the voice of Christ speaks through the Word, then you will arise, and leave all, and follow Him.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#18. 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
#19. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#20. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#21. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#22. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#25. A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#27. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#28. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#29. Depend upon it, it is God's Word, not our comment upon God's Word, that saves souls.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#31. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#32. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#34. I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#35. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#37. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#38. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#39. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#40. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#41. If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#43. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#45. O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#48. You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#50. T.S. Eliot, who learned to swim at the same beach as I did, just threw in the towel and moved to Cheyne Walk. I'm not going to do that but I'm not scared of the open channel between me and Britain.
William Monahan
#52. All you need is love,
But a little bit of chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Charles M. Schulz
#53. My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.
Trey Anastasio
#54. When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.
Mary Harron
#55. I'm not holding Hitler up as a role model, the man was a filthy swine, but as I stood in the suspicious glare of my boss I thought, What would Hitler do?
Anonymous
#56. Never be ashamed of where you've been, only the moment you stop trying.
L.M. Fields
#58. He looks up, sees me in the window, and jumps a little. Good. Let him think I'm a weird Mexican place mat ghost.
Anna Breslaw
#60. I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#61. I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm willing to die no one can master me.
Walter Mosley
#62. I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.
Melina Marchetta
#63. I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say."
"That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that's what you two are ... "
"You didn't think it was such a freak's school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you.
J.K. Rowling
#64. I'm just like my fans, and that's the way I like it.
Tyler Farr
#65. Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of rise and fall, of beginning and end, of catastrophe.
J.M. Coetzee
#67. I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very confident in being single until I find someone who I'm extremely crazy about and who I want to devote my time and love to. Until then, I will just be on my own and I am totally fine with that,
Nina Dobrev
#68. I'm very fun; I like to have fun, and I don't like to take life too serious, so of course everybody saw me as the outgoing fun one and the crazy one.
Kendra Wilkinson
#69. I'm beginning to think a dictionary would have been a far more advantageous birthday gift for you."
"More advantageous than being eaten alive by a giant, carnivorous bunny? Yes, most things fall in that category, I think.
William Ritter
#70. I don't need to touch a woman to possess her; I can reel in souls with a simple look, a light touch, a well-timed smile. It's not magic. This, this is simple biology.
C.M. Stunich
#71. This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.
Janet Morris
#72. Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up.
Isaac Mizrahi
#73. Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
Augusten Burroughs
#74. I'm going to write about them as I took them -- with a smile.
Jack Black
#75. Was I wrong? Was I imagining a problem where there wasn't one? Of course my great aunt Maureen always said even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Suzanne M. Trauth
#76. Smack me if we ever get that awful."
"But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?"
"We shall work out a smacking code.
Gina Damico
#77. Well, she said, "The reception of the semen is the height of ecstasy. I want it always, constantly." Isn't that extraordinary?
D.M. Thomas
#78. Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#80. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#82. If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#87. He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.
E. M. Forster
#88. I don't say I'm not magnetic to try and sound self-deprecating. I'm just not. Though I actually love people. I would like to meet more people. I know no one.
Kristen Stewart
#89. 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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#91. I don't like psychiatrists," Alecto told her. "Not because they don't think I'm real, but because they have no idea what they're doing.
Rebecca McNutt
#92. It's a balance. Like, we are shooting the big car chase at the end and it's me with everybody. And I got my stunt coordinator who shot some stuff and I'm like, you are right next to me, why don't we do it together.
George Tillman Jr.
#93. I'm all for skinny jeans, a flowing blouse, patterned flats and chunky jewels.
Sydney Wayser
#94. This is Karma. I'm a bitch. Can you think of anyone who deserves a bitch slap? - Kat
Jenny Han
#95. I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.
Rita Ora
#96. I believe the last thing I read at night will likely manifest when I'm sleeping. You become what you think about the most.
Daymond John
#97. Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.
Richard M. Nixon
#98. People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was a point when I would have liked to, but apparently that's just because I'm a bitch.
Dale Peck
#99. I'm not a 'Steel Magnolias' kind of girl. I'm kind of like a guy. My favorite movie is 'Caddyshack.'
Leslie Bibb
#100. I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song.
Jake Holmes
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