Quotes from Andrew Murray

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." . . . "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." JOHN 6:63, 68 (NKJV)

The blessing is often superficial or transitory, just because they are not the nothing that opens the way for God to be all.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall recompense thee.'—Matt. vi. 6.

joy in prayer is sign of communion with God that shows that God is everything to them.

In the light of His example, we can prove that suffering is to God's child the token of the Father's love and the channel of His richest blessing.

Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray.

But God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. . . . Without holiness no one will see the Lord. HEBREWS 12:10, 14

Your life can, through loving obedience and the indwelling of the risen Christ, be a very strong witness in the world, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

The master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort. Failure does not always mean fault. He knows how much things cost, and weighs them where others only measure.

It is only the fully surrendered heart that can fully trust God for all that He has promised.

God has priority over your time, no matter what else must be neglected. Only then will you be able to submit yourself fully to the will of God. If, from day to day, you persevere with dedication, time will no longer be a question.

Remember that you have been saved in order to serve, and you are on earth for the sole purpose of making God's love known to others.

Chastisement leads to the fellowship of God's Son. Only in Christ do we have the power to love and rejoice in the will of God.

May God teach us that our thoughts, words, and feelings concerning our fellow man are His test of our humility towards Him.

And again, alas! for how many Christians there are for whom, when the word is heard, it has but little attraction, because it has never yet been shown to them as a life that is indeed possible, and unutterably blessed.

Prayer is not merely coming to God to ask something from him. It is above all fellowship with God and being brought under the power of his holiness and love, till he takes possession of us and stamps our entire nature with the lowliness of Christ, which is the secret of all true worship.

The place of private prayer is the key, the strategic position, where decisive victory is obtained.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.'—John iv. 23, 24.

Amid the painful consciousness of ignorance and unworthiness, in the struggle between believing and doubting, the heavenly art of effectual prayer is learnt.

In their spiritual history men may have had times of great humbling and brokenness, but what a different thing this is from being clothed with humility, from having an humble spirit, from having that lowliness of mind in which each counts himself the servant of others, and so shows forth the very mind which was also in Jesus Christ. "Stand

The Bible does not authorize us, either by the words of the Lord or His apostles, to believe that the gifts of healing were granted only to the early church;

Christ meant prayer to be the great power by which His church should do its work, and the neglect of prayer is the reason the church lacks greater power.

We see thus that everything depends on our own relation to the Name: the power it has on my life is the power it will have in my prayers.

faith finds strength, not in the thought of what you will do, but in the changeless faithfulness and love of Christ, who once again helps and assures you that those who wait on Him shall not be ashamed.