Robert Murray M'Cheyne — diary / personal resolutions in Andrew A. Bonar, Memoir and Remains / Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely. Such infinite majesty, and yet such meekness and grace, and all for sinners, even the chief! Live much in the s…

You must be content then to lean all your weight upon Christ. Cast the burden of temporal things upon him. Cast the care of your soul upon him. If God be for us, who can be against us? They that wait upon the Lord shall…

In travelling, you never think of making a house in the wilderness. So, dear friends, do not take up your rest here, we are journeying. Let all your endeavours be to get on in your journey.

Sabbath-days are like milestones — marking our way; or rather they are like the wells we used to come to at evening. Every real Christian is making progress. Dear Christians, you should be advancing, getting higher, near…

It is far happier to be in Christ than to be out of Christ. Is it not an awful thing to be happy when you are unsaved? Would it not be dreadful to see a man sleeping in a house all on fire? And is it not enough to make o…

The Sabbath is the great day for gathering in souls — it is Christ's market-day. It is the great harvest-day of souls. I know there is a generation rising up that would fain trample the Sabbath beneath their feet; but pr…