"The nearer you take anything to the light,……" — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
"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."
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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72 Quotes by Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you…
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If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
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Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.
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When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to…
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Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the…
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Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so,…
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