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'CheyneRead
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 not when your last Sabbath with your people may come. Speak for eternity. Above all things, cultivate your own spirit. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Embrace and utilize your health and opportunities now, as they are fleeting and precious.
This quote emphasizes the importance of valuing our health and the unique opportunities that life presents. It reminds us to act with intention and clarity, especially when expressing ourselves, as our words carry weight when they are rooted in a clear conscience and sincerity. The reference to potentially not knowing when we will have our last moments reinforces the urgency to live authentically and to cultivate our inner strength and spirit.
Themes
HealthOpportunitiesSpiritClarityConscience
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the importance of mental and physical health, one might quote this to highlight the urgency of seizing the moment.
More from Robert Murray M'Cheyne
All quotes →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.
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Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?
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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 to be thrust into any corner.
Robert Murray M'CheyneRead
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.
Robert Murray M'CheyneRead
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
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