Quotes from Andrew Murray

In heaven and on earth, pride or self-exaltation is the very gateway to hell.

Faith is nothing other than the certitude that God speaks truth.

In linking holy and without blemish (or without blame) so closely, the Holy Spirit would have led us to seek for the embodiment of holiness as a spiritual power in the blamelessness of practice and of daily life.

Consider humility to be the mother-virtue, your very first duty before God, the one constant safeguard of the soul, and set your heart on it as the source of all blessing.

Humility is the only soil in which virtue takes root; a lack of humility is the explanation of every defect and failure.

I need a divine omnipotence to work it in me. And that is what the apostle Paul teaches in Philippians 2:13: "It is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

We cannot possibly be satisfied with anything less than to walk with God — each day, each hour, and each moment, in Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Do not mind whatever He has for me to do; though my work is feeble and I sometimes feel ashamed of it, I have put myself into God's hands as an instrument for Him to use.

The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.

I will not learn it until I realize that "God is love," and to claim and receive it as an indwelling power for self-sacrifice. I will not love until I begin to see that my glory, my blessedness, is to be like God and like Christ, in giving up everything in myself for my fellow-men.

Pray that He will make you willing to give up everything for the Christlike joy of the Father's constant presence.

As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth you.