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God Quotes by Robert Murray M'Cheyne
- God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.
- O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.
- 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…
- 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…
- Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object…
- 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…
- 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…
- I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.
- The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.
- Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.
- A holy man is a mighty weapon in the hands of God.
- Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?
- Depend upon it, it is God's Word, not our comment upon God's Word, that saves souls.
- A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man
- Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know…
- It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of…
- Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely . . . . Live…
- 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…
- Get your texts from God - your thoughts, your words, from God... It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to…
- It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of present happiness, I shall do most for God’s glory and the good of man,…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi