The Scottish preacher Robert Murray M’Cheyne gave a friend this advice:

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 smiles of God. Bask in His beams. Feel His all-seeing eye settled on you in love, and repose in His almighty arms…Let your soul be filled with a heart-ravishing sense of the sweetness and excellency of Christ and all that is in Him.

— Robert Murray M’Cheyne, quoted in Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015), 11.