Top 60 Robert Murray M'Cheyne Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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2. “My people’s greatest need is my personal holiness.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

3. “A holy man is a mighty weapon in the hands of God.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

5. “Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

6. “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

7. “The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

9. “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

10. “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

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

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

16. “A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

17. “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

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

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

19. “Depend upon it, it is God’s Word, not our comment upon God’s Word, that saves souls.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

21. “A dark hour makes Jesus bright.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

22. “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

23. “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

24. “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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “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.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

28. “A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

29. “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

30. “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

31. “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

32. “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

33. “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

34. “Are we not all immortal till our work is done?”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

35. “I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

36. “Joy is increased by spreading it to others.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

37. “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.”

— 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. “It is not our comment on the Word that saves, but the Word itself.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

40. “It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

42. “When the voice of Christ speaks through the Word, then you will arise, and leave all, and follow Him.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

43. “Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

44. “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.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

45. “A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

46. “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

47. “There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

48. “Let your soul be filled with a heart-ravishing sense of the sweetness and excellency of Christ and all that is in Him. Let the Holy Spirit fill every chamber of your heart; and so there will be no room for folly, or the world, or Satan, or the flesh.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

49. “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

50. “Let us see God before man every day.”

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne