To gain entire likeness to Christ, I ought to get a high esteem of the happiness of it. I am persuaded that God’s happiness is inseparably linked in with His holiness. Holiness and happiness are like light and heat. God never tasted one of the pleasures of sin. Christ has a body such as I have, yet He never tasted one of the pleasures of sin. The redeemed, through all eternity, will never taste one of the pleasures of sin; yet their happiness is complete… Every sin is something away from my greatest enjoyment… The devil strives night and day to make me forget this or disbelieve it. He says, Why should you not enjoy this pleasure as much as Solomon or David? You may go to heaven also. I am persuaded this is a lie — that my true happiness is to go and sin no more.
— Robert Murray McCheyne (1813–1843), Pfarrer
Topics: Growth & Character, Temptation & Struggle, Joy & Gratitude
Occasions: For Reflection
Robert Murray McCheyne
Robert Murray McCheyne war ein schottischer presbyterianischer Pfarrer, der von 1836 bis zu seinem frühen Tod 1843 an der St. Peter’s Church in Dundee wirkte. Er stand für eine calvinistische Erweckungsfrömmigkeit, die persönliche Heiligung, leidenschaftliche Verkündigung und eine konsequente Verwurzelung in der Schrift betonte. Bibellesern ist er heute vor allem durch seinen weit verbreiteten Bibelleseplan sowie durch seine Texte über Gebet und geistliche Hingabe bekannt.
All quotes by Robert Murray McCheyne (40)
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Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
Tim Keller
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson
Being a Christian is not a 'do-it-yourself' affair.
Jerry Bridges
Christ accepts us as we are, but he does not leave us as we are.
Ingrid Trobisch
John Newton
Charles Haddon Spurgeon