Robert Murray Mccheyne Quotes

#1. Robert Murray McCheyne declared: My people's greatest need is my personal holiness.

J.I. Packer

#2. What a man is on his knees before God, that he is, and nothing more.

Robert Murray McCheyne

#3. 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. (Works, 59)

Robert Murray McCheyne

#4. He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

John Donne

#5. I'm not that big, physically. I'm just big where it counts - I got a big heart!

Big Sean

#6. I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

Jaclyn Smith

#7. It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear.

Henry Carter Stuart

#8. The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.

Robert Murray McCheyne

#9. The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

Thomas Merton

#10. Do not doubt the holy love of Jesus to your soul when he is laying a heavy hand upon you.

Robert Murray McCheyne

#11. Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.

Robert Murray McCheyne

#12. Oh, my dear! I'm afraid you've mistaken
me for someone else! My name is Rhea Silvia. I was the mother to Romulus and Remus, thousands of years ago. But you're so kind to think I look as young as the 1950s.

Rick Riordan

#13. We've become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, we're so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it.

Tana French

#14. Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#15. Set not your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. He changes not! Live nearer to Christ than to any person on this earth; so that when they are taken, you may have Him to love and lean upon.

Robert Murray McCheyne

#16. [Suffering] brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; so it is affliction that draws forth submission, weanedness from the world, and complete rest in God. Use afflictions while you have them.

Robert Murray McCheyne

#17. If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord, send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake me from earthly slumbers. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever be the quickening instrument.

Robert Murray McCheyne

#18. I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

Barry Zito

#19. I think how there are fault lines in men as old and uncharted as the earth itself. Made known just before the ground starts separating and by then it's too late.

Ashley Warlick