Quotes From "Humility" By Andrew Murray

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us. Andrew Murray

Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom. Andrew Murray

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. Andrew Murray

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you. Andrew Murray

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all. Andrew Murray

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. Andrew Murray

Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men. Andrew Murray

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory. Andrew Murray

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God. Andrew Murray

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. Andrew Murray

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

Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all. Andrew Murray

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. Andrew Murray

When the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, ofhell. Andrew Murray

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. Andrew Murray

As truly as God by His power oncecreated, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain. Andrew Murray

Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original. Andrew Murray