Top 100 Andrew Murray Quotes
#1. As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.
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#2. It is that which made the angels, Jesus himself, and the holiest saints humble. It is the first and chief mark of the relationship of the creature to God, of the Son to the Father - it is the secret of blessedness, the desire to be nothing, that allows God to be all in all.
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#3. Never think of the riches of wisdom and knowledge hidden in Jesus as treasures without a key, or of your way as a path without a light. Jesus, your wisdom, is guiding you in the right way, even when you do not see it.
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#4. The great difference between the carnal and the spiritual Christian is that the latter acknowledges God, under whatever low and poor and human appearances He manifests Himself.
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#5. It is the one who does what God commands to whom God can entrust His work, whom God can use to be a type of savior to others.
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#6. 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;
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#7. Remember that Christ works in and through you, and provides all that God desires for you and all that you need.
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#8. Brother, the act of faith, by which you accept and enter this life in the New Covenant, is not commonly an act of power, but often of weakness and fear and much trembling.
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#9. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.' - John iv. 23, 24.
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#10. 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.
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#11. know the law of human nature: acts produce habits, habits breed dispositions, dispositions form the will, and the rightly-formed will is character.
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#12. The power of prayer does not lie in the number or earnestness of the words you use, but in a living faith that God Himself accepts both you and your prayer into His loving heart.
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#13. The place of private prayer is the key, the strategic position, where decisive victory is obtained.
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#14. 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.
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#15. The insignificant matters of daily life are the important tests of eternity because they prove what Spirit truly dwells within us.
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#16. Workers, take your place every day at the feet of Jesus, in the blessed peace and rest that come from the knowledge - I have no care, my cares are His! I have no fear, He cares for all my fears.
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#17. The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.
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#18. Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.
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#19. experience of the purity and the power, the love and
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#20. It is not until Christians study the humility of Jesus as the very essence of His redemption, as the only true relationship to the Father, that the terrible lack of actual, heavenly humility will become a burden and a sorrow.
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#21. Believer! study the humility of Jesus. This is the secret, the hidden root of thy redemption. Sink down into it deeper day by day.
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#22. The call to humility has been too little regarded in the church because its true nature and importance have been too little apprehended. It is not something that we bring to God, or that He bestows; it is simply the sense of entire nothingness that comes when we see how truly God is everything.
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#23. When feeling says, 'In myself, I am sinful; I am dark; I am weak; I am poor; I am sad;' let faith say. 'In Christ, I am holy; I am light; I am strong; I am rich; I am joyful.
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#24. Dutch) language. I pray still more earnestly that He would,
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#25. There is so little of the meek and lowly Lamb of God in those who are called by His name. Let us consider how our lack of love, indifference to the needs and feelings of
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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;
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.
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#33. 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.
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#34. Oh, become nothing in deep reality, and, as a worker, study only one thing - to become poorer and lower and more helpless, that Christ may work all in you.
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#35. Him alone brings the joy unspeakable and full of glory. Oh, let each of us who has begun to taste the
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#36. 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.
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#37. Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.
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#38. Betwixt the life of feeling and the life of faith the Christian has to choose every day. Happy is he who, once for all, has made the firm choice, and every morning renews the choice, not to seek or listen for feeling, but only to walk by faith, according to the will of God.
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#39. And this is the way to live as children of God: as many as receive Him, to them gives He the power to become children of God. This holds true, not only of conversion and regeneration, but of every day of my life.
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#40. Let us look upward and look inward, in the faith of the Son and the Spirit, and God will show us that every word written in the Book of the Covenant is not only true, but that it can be made spirit and truth within us, and in our daily life. This can indeed be.
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#41. Faith and humility are at their root one, and that we can never have more of true faith than we have of true humility. It is possible to have strong intellectual convictions and assurance of the truth while pride is still in the heart, but it makes living faith, which has power with God, impossible.
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#42. In the light of His example we can see, in the faith of His power we too can prove, that suffering is to God's child the token of the Father's love, and the channel of His richest blessing. [ ... ]
Suffering is the way of the rent veil, the new and living way Jesus walked in and opened for us.
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#43. No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.
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#44. 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.
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#45. A soul filled with large thoughts of the Vine will be a strong branch, and will abide confidently in Him. Be much occupied with Jesus, and believe much in Him, as the True Vine.
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#46. In heaven and on earth, pride or self-exaltation is the very gateway to hell.
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#47. God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.
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#48. Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.
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#49. those who have not yet fully understood what the Savior meant with His command, or who have feared
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#50. one word of advice to my reader. It is this. It needs
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#51. Humility is the only soil in which virtue takes root; a lack of humility is the explanation of every defect and failure.
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#52. Precious lessons that Jesus has to teach us this day. We seek God's gifts: God wants to give us HIMSELF first. We think of prayer as the power to draw down good gifts from heaven; Jesus as the means to draw ourselves up to God.
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#54. Therefore every morning, present yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead. He will maintain the life He gave, and bestow the grace to live as risen ones.
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#55. Let us pray to God that other gifts may not so satisfy us, that we never grasp the fact that the absence of this grace (humility) is the secret cause why the power of God cannot do its mighty work.
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#56. Follow me." When about to leave for heaven, He gave them a new word, in which their more intimate and spiritual union with Himself in glory should be expressed. That chosen word was: "Abide in me." It is to be feared that there
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#57. Being filled with the Spirit is simply this - having my whole nature yielded to His power. When the whole soul is yielded to the Holy Spirit, God Himself will fill it.
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#58. 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.
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#59. By His death He proved that He possessed life only to hold it, and to spend it, for God.
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#60. who seek to know Him fully, as He has already blessed
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#61. There is such a thing as a Pentecost still to the disciples of Jesus; but it comes to him who has forsaken all to follow Jesus only, and in following fully has allowed the Master to reprove and instruct him.
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#62. Let this, then, be our first lesson: the presence of God is the chief thing, in our devotions.
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#63. 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.
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#64. The effective prayer of faith comes from a life given up to the will and the love of God. Not as a result of what I try to be when praying, but because of what I am when I'm not praying, is my prayer answered by God. All
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#65. Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the invisible; fasting, the other, with which we let loose and cast away the visible.
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#66. 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)
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#67. In our modern religion there is a reticence in speaking of our personal relationship to Jesus which often causes great loss. We forget that the majority of men are guided more by emotions than by intellect: the heart is the great power by which they are meant to be influenced and molded.
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#68. This is the love of God; not that He gives us something, but that He gives us some one - a living person - not one or another blessing, but Him in whom is all life and blessing - Jesus Himself.
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#69. 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.
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#70. The reality is that a heart desire for prayer is lacking. Many do not know how to spend half an hour with God! It is not that they absolutely do not pray; they may pray every day - but they have no joy in prayer. Joy is the sign that God is everything to you.
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#71. humility is one of the chief and the highest graces; one of the most difficult of attainment; one to which our first and chiefest efforts ought to be directed; one that only comes in power, when the fullness of the Spirit makes us partakers of the indwelling Christ, and He lives within us. Second,
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#72. blood, I am confident that many would be found to accept
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#73. As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth you.
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#74. Nothing but the presence of God can reveal and expel self.
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#75. Faith is nothing other than the certitude that God speaks truth.
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#76. As truly as God by His power once
created, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain.
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#77. would, by whatever means, make the multitudes of His dear children who are still living divided lives,
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#78. Humility is, nothing but that simple consent of the creature to let God be all, in virtue of which it surrenders itself to His working alone.
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#79. The only hope of a decreasing self is an increasing Christ." F. B. MEYER
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#80. As God is Spirit, not bound by space or time, but in His infinite perfection always and everywhere the same, so His worship would henceforth no longer be confined by place or form, but spiritual as God Himself is spiritual.
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#81. And so the Holiness of God is that infinite Perfection by which He keeps Himself free from all that is not Divine, and yet has fellowship with the creature, and takes it up into union with Himself, destroying and casting out all that will not yield itself to Him.
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#82. 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.
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#84. Paul felt deeply for the unity of the body of Christ. He was convinced that unity could only be reached by the exercise of love and prayer.
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#85. In that blood, dwelt the soul of the holy Son of God.
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#86. Jesus did not teach His disciples how to preach but how to pray. To know how to speak to God is more vital than knowing how to speak to men. It is power with God not man that is of supreme
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#87. 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.
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#88. 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.
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#89. with the abiding in Him. It is with the desire
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#90. to the child, the Father all for the child. We shall understand how Father and child, the Thine and the Our, are all one, and how the heart that begins its prayer with the God-devoted Thine, will have the power in faith to speak out the Our too. Such prayer will, indeed, be the
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#91. A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.
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#92. The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
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#93. Therefore, let us put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering; and let us prove our Christlikeness not only in our zeal for saving the lost but also in our relationships with others - forbearing and forgiving one another, even as the Lord forgave us. Let
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#94. Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.
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#95. Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.
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#96. A soul cannot seek close fellowship with God, or attain the abiding consciousness of waiting on Him all the day, without a very honest and entire surrender to all His will.
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#97. When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. ACTS 4:13
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#98. Look at the commencement of His ministry. In the Beatitudes with which the Sermon on the Mount opens, He speaks: "Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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#99. And God is meant to be the home of our souls. Christ came into the world to bring us back to God, and unless we take Christ for what God intended we should, our religion will always be a divided one.
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#100. The complaints of many Christians as to lack of joy and strength, as to failure and want of growth, are simply owing to this - the place God gave Holiness in His call they have not given it in their response. God and they have never yet come to an agreement on this.
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