Quotes from Andrew Murray

The whole difficulty is that we wish to pray in the Spirit and at the same time walk after the flesh. This is impossible.

Let us learn the lesson: the highest holiness is the deepest humility.

As a child, Andrew Murray's "world" spanned two continents, Africa and Europe; but ultimately his preaching, teaching, and writing fueled spiritual awakening and revival with a worldwide impact. Andrew Murray was born in 1828 in South Africa, into a Dutch Reformed parsonage. At age ten he and a brother sailed to Scotland for schooling and later to Holland for theological studies, before returning ten years later to South Africa for pastoral ministries of their own.

Not on the strong or the fervent feeling with which I pray does the blessing of the closet depend, but upon the love and the power of the Father to whom I there entrust my needs.

Bring back all who are discouraged, because they cannot find aught to bring Thee in prayer. O give them to understand that they have only to come with their emptiness to Him who has all to give, and delights to do it. Not, what they have to bring the Father, but what the Father waits to give them, be their one thought.

the marks of the spiritual man are that he will be a meek man; and that he will have power, and love to help and restore those that are fallen.

Unfortunately, the great majority of Christians know so little of their oneness with Christ Jesus and with the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of prayer that they do not even attempt to claim the wonderful promises Christ made to them.

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is, from the very nature of things, the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And

And let each failure and shortcoming simply urge us to turn humbly and meekly to the meek and lowly Lamb of God, in the assurance that where He is enthroned in the heart, His humility and gentleness will be one of the streams of living water that flow from within us.

By Your grace I desire to do Your will in everything, every moment of every day." Say: "Lord God, not a word upon my tongue but for Your glory. Not a movement of my temper but for Your glory. Not an affection of love or hate in my heart but for Your glory, and according to Your blessed will.

Thank You, Jesus, that through the cross You gave me unconditional access to the throne of God.

It is the very essence of true religion, the channel of all blessings, the secret of power and life.

be to the glory of God, in full surrender to His will, in full assurance of faith, in the name of Jesus, and with a perseverance that, if need be, refuses to be denied.

The humble man feels no jealousy or envy. He can praise God when others are preferred and blessed before him. He can bear to hear others praised and himself forgotten, because in God's presence he has learned to say with Paul, I am nothing.

The Spirit must be honored not only as the author of a new life but also as the leader and director of our entire walk.

By His death He proved that He possessed life only to hold it, and to spend it, for God.

Humility is simply the sense of entire nothingness, which comes when we see how truly God is all, and in which we make way for God to be all. When the creature realizes that this is true goodness, and consents to be the vessel in which the life and glory of God are to work and exhibit themselves, he sees that humility is simply acknowledging the truth of his position as the creature, and yielding to God His rightful place.

The more I understand and contemplate Jesus' surrender of Himself for me, the more do I give myself again to Him. The surrender is a mutual one: the love comes from both sides. His giving of Himself makes such an impression on my heart, that my heart with the self-same love and joy becomes entirely His.

We learn a great lesson when we come to understand that the deliberate quieting of our souls and minds before God is the secret of true adoration.

God has the right to expect so much from us! For He is the Creator who made us to reflect His glory, and for this purpose He must possess us wholly.

Some receive Christ in terms of the forgiveness of sin and the hope of heaven, yet know little of His fullness and the wealth that is to be found in Him.

Believe that ye receive it, and it shall come upon you. Between the receive in heaven and the shall come of earth is believe: believing praise and prayer are the link.

one. Children of God! it is thus Jesus would have us to pray to the Father in heaven. O let His Name, and Kingdom, and Will, have the first place in our love;

Humility is simply the sense of entire nothingness, which comes when we see how truly God is all, and in which we make way for God to be all.