If I knew I were one of God’s elect, I would come to Christ; but I fear I am not." ...To you I answer: nobody ever came to Christ because he knew himself to be one of the elect - Robert Murray M’Cheyne

“If I knew I were one of God’s elect, I would come to Christ; but I fear I am not." ...To you I answer: nobody ever came to Christ because he knew himself to be one of the elect.... It is quite true that God has of His mere good pleasure elected some to everlasting life, but they never knew it until they believed in Christ...

Christ nowhere commands the elect to come to him. He commands all men everywhere to repent and believe the gospel... The question for you is not, ‘Am I one of the elect?’ but ‘Am I a sinner?’ Christ came to save sinners.”

– Robert Murray M’Cheyne

Robert Murray M'Cheyne (pronounced "Mak-shayn",occasionally spelled as "McCheyne"; 21 May 1813 – 25 March 1843) was a minister in the Church of Scotland from 1835 to 1843.

M'Cheyne designed a widely used system for reading through the Bible in one year. The plan entails reading the New Testament and the Psalms through twice a year, and the Old Testament through once. This program was included (in a slightly modified form) in For the Love of God by D. A. Carson and is recommended by several Bible publishers, such as the English Standard Version and the New English Translation.