Quotes About Andrew Murray

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.

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

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

Here is the life of holiness as the Thrice Holy gives it: the Father, the first, the Holy One, making holy; the Son, the second, His Holy One, in whom we are; the Spirit, the third, who dwells in us, and through whom we abide in Christ, and Christ in us. Thus it is that the Thrice Holy makes us holy. [. . .] Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, (2 Peter 3:11, KJV).

daily and hourly presence and keeping, were preached with the same distinctness and urgency

pour out His Spirit, we must enter into a covenant with God that we will love one another with a heavenly love.

and unlovable a man is the more I will love him. When I am brought to such a state that the more obstacles, hatred, and ingratitude surround me, the more the power of love can triumph in me. Until I am brought to see these, I am not saying: "It is impossible

At the root of all real experience of grace and true

and let the infinite Fatherliness of God's Heart be my joy and strength for a life of prayer and of worship. Amen.

Who can say what power a church could develop and exercise if it gave itself to the work of prayer day and night for the coming of the kingdom, for God's power on His servants, and to His Word for the glorifying of God in the salvation of souls?

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty of the creature, and the root of every good quality.

In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of hell.1

Unfaithful in prayer, weak in the working of the Spirit, its witness to Christ a mere formality, and unfaithful to its worldwide mission—such are the marks of a powerless church.

Once again. It is only love that can fit us for the work of intercession.

Without humility, there can be no true dwelling in God's presence or enjoying His favor and the power of His Spirit.

All these searchings and hungerings and longings that are in your heart, I tell you, they are the drawings of the divine magnet, Christ Jesus.

Obedience is the only path that leads to the glory of God - not obedience instead of faith, nor obedience to supply the shortcomings of faith. No, faith's obedience gives access to all the blessings our God has for us.

Where there is not intense longing to be kept to the utmost from sinning, and to be brought into the closest possible union with the Saviour, the thought of being crucified with Him can find no entrance.

It is from the sacrifice of the will in Gethsemane that the sacrifice of the life on Calvary derives its value.

So intimately is it bound up with the entire spiritual life that only

Love Conquers Selfishness "The fruit of the Spirit is love." Why? Because nothing but love can expel and conquer our selfishness.

Holiness is more than purity. In Scripture we see that cleansing precedes holiness. (2 Cor. 7:1; Eph. 5:26,27; 2 Tim. 2:21) Cleansing is the taking away of that which is wrong; liberation from sin. Holiness is the filling with that which is good, divine, with the disposition of Jesus.

not prayed for power for full deliverance from self. That means not only the righteous self in fellowship with God, but the unloving self in fellowship with men. And there is deliverance. "The fruit of the Spirit is love." I bring you the glorious promise of

They do not realize that the most dangerous source of sin is the love of the world with its lusts and pleasures.