Andrew Murray Quotes

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Being filled with the Spirit is simply this - having my whole nature yielded to His power. When the whole soul is yielded to the Holy Spirit, God Himself will fill it.

We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.

God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.

A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.

Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original.

As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.

How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

Abiding fully means praying much.

When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.

Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.

Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.

As truly as God by His power oncecreated, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain.

Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.

Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.

Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.

Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.