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“Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Then when in secret prayer the soul is often out of tune, 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.” The conscience feels guilty, the soul unfed, the lamp not trimmed. David says: ‘Early will I seek thee’ ‘Thou shalt early hear my voice.’ Family prayer loses much of its power and sweetness, and I can do no good to those who come to seek from me. Christ arose before day and went into a solitary place. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o’clock before I begin secret prayer. Luther spent his best three hours in prayer.” Give yourself to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two your life preaches all the week. “The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.” “For every look at self, take ten looks at Christ.” “A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more.” I will be grateful to receive by email suggestions for further M‘Cheyne quotes to be included. I hope that this page will be an ogoing work, not one which can ever claim to be complete.
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Perhaps at some future occasion I will be more systematic and locate all the various source references. They are not arranged in any particular order. In this page I have begun to collect some of the more famous and pointed quotations from the writings of Robert Murray M‘Cheyne.