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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

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.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Christian, Religious, Prayer

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
Jesus, Prayer, Believe
Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “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”, p.465

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

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Prayer, Giving, Gods Will
Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.194

There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Prayer, Hate, Men
Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “The Works of the Late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne: Containing His Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, Songs of Zion, &c”, p.82

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
Prayer, Believe, Moving
Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1848). “Sermons”, p.381

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
Prayer, Sleep, Long
Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.140

Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourselves to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Prayer, Two, Giving

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
Prayer, Giving, Ministry
Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “The Works of the Late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne: Containing His Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, Songs of Zion, &c”, p.68

Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Prayer, Tunes, Study

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