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
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.
Interpretation
Focusing on spiritual or eternal values makes worldly concerns seem insignificant.
This quote suggests that by cultivating a close relationship with God or embracing spiritual truths, the trivialities and struggles of everyday life become less daunting and less significant when compared to the profound realities of eternity. It emphasizes the importance of seeking higher truths that offer perspective on our temporal challenges.
In practice
Using this quote as part of a speech on finding peace in spirituality during a sermon.
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.
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.
Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?
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.
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
The greatest need of my people is my own holiness.
Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the whiteβs front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
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