"Humility, the place of entire dependence on 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."
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30 Quotes by Andrew Murray
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The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
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Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.
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Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me,…
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Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do,…
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The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the…
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We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can…
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God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out…
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Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest…
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God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think…
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Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
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A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.
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The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the…
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God's first creature, which was light.
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