“Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
“Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
“Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
tags: glory-of-god, humility
“Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
tags: glory-of-god, humility
“The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
“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.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
“Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
“Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility of the kingdom of heaven, that this is the royal spirit that the King of heaven displayed, that this is Godlike, to humble oneself, to become the servant of all!”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
“Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
tags: dependence, humility
“As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
“The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
tags: discipleship, humility, relationships
“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.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
“As truly as God by His power once
created, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
created, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
tags: creation, dependence, sovereignty
“Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
“Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
“Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
tags: humiliation, humility, leadership, promotion
“A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
tags: self-centeredness, servanthood
“Stand by; for I am holier than you!" What a parody on holiness! Jesus the Holy One is the humble One: the holiest will ever be the humblest. There is none holy but God: we have as much of holiness as we have of God.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
“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.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
“Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
tags: humility, relationships
“when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of
hell.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
hell.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
tags: humility, original-sin, pride
“meekness and lowliness of heart are to be the distinguishing feature of the disciple, just as they were of the Master. And further, that this humility is not something that will come of itself, but that it must be made the object of special desire, prayer, faith, and practice.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
“Pride renders faith impossible.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility
― Andrew Murray, Humility
“advance in consecration is conformity to the likeness of Jesus, which affects our dispositions and our habits. The reason I mention disposition and habit is that it is possible to speak of walking in the Spirit while there is still evidence of self. True humility will manifest itself in daily life. The one who has it will take the form of a servant. It is possible to speak of fellowship with a despised and rejected Jesus and of bearing His cross, while the meek and lowly Lamb of God is not seen and rarely sought. The Lamb of God means two things: meekness and death. Let us seek to receive Him in both forms. What a hopeless task if we had to do the work ourselves! Nature never can overcome nature, not even with the help of grace. Self can never cast out self, even in the regenerate man. Praise God! The work has been done, finished, and perfected forever. The death of Jesus, once and for all, is our death to self.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
“God desired to reveal himself in and through His creatures by communicating to them as much of His own goodness and glory as they were capable of receiving. But this communication was not meant to give created beings something they could possess in themselves, having full charge and access apart from Him. Rather, God as the ever-living, ever-present, ever-acting One, who upholds all things by the word of His power, and in whom all things exist, meant that the relationship of His creatures to himself would be one of unceasing, absolute dependence. As truly as God by His power once created all things, so by that same power must God every moment maintain all things.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
“Humility, the place of entire dependence upon God, is from the very nature of things the first duty and the highest virtue of His creatures. And so pride—the loss of humility—is the root of every sin and evil.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
“In the life of earnest Christians who pursue and profess holiness, humility ought to be the chief mark of their uprightness.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
“it is important that we know who Christ is, especially the chief characteristic that is the root and essence of His character as our Redeemer. There can be but one answer: it is His humility. What is the Incarnation but His heavenly humility, His emptying himself and becoming man? What is His life on earth but humility; His taking the form of a servant? And what is His atonement but humility? “He humbled himself and became obedient to death.” And what is His ascension and His glory but humility exalted to the throne and crowned with glory? “He humbled himself... therefore God exalted Him to the highest place.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
“If humility is the first, the all-inclusive grace of the life of Jesus—if humility is the secret of His atonement—then the health and strength of our spiritual life will depend entirely upon our putting this grace first and making humility the chief quality we admire in Him, the chief attribute we ask of Him, the one thing for which we sacrifice all else.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
“Until a humility that rests in nothing less than the end and death of self, and which gives up all the honor of men as Jesus did to seek the honor that comes from God alone (which absolutely makes and counts itself nothing) that God may be all, that the Lord alone may be exalted—until such a humility is what we seek in Christ above our chief joy, and welcome at any price, there is very little hope of a faith that will conquer the world.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
~Andrew Murray~
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