Quotes by Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray (1828–1917) — Pastor · Reformiert · Südafrika
Andrew Murray (1828–1917) war ein südafrikanischer reformierter Pastor, Erweckungsprediger und Autor, der das kirchliche Leben seines Landes und die weltweite Erweckungsbewegung prägte. Er stand für eine von der Heiligungsbewegung beeinflusste Theologie der völligen Hingabe und des Gebets, stieß jedoch mit seinen Ansichten zur Glaubensheilung und Stufenheiligung auf Kritik traditioneller reformierter Theologen. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet er vor allem durch seine zahlreichen Andachtsbücher als Impulsgeber für ein praktisches Glaubens- und Gebetsleben.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Prayer & Silence, Growth & Character, Discipleship, Faith & Trust, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Humility & Pride, Witness & Mission, Grace & Redemption
Quotes by Andrew Murray
Never try to arouse faith from within. You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ.
Andrew Murray
Christ is the humility of God embodied in human nature; the Eternal Love humbling itself, clothing itself in the garb of meekness and gentleness, to win and serve and save us.
Andrew Murray
Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian.
Andrew Murray
God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.
Andrew Murray
Prayer is the natural and joyous breathing of the spiritual life by which the heavenly atmosphere is inhaled and then exhaled in prayer.
Andrew Murray
Do not doubt for a moment what God can do for you. You can do nothing yourself, but he will tirelessly accomplish the work that your best efforts could never achieve.
Andrew Murray
Just as water seeks to fill the lowest places, so God fills you with His glory and power when He finds you empty and abased.
Andrew Murray
May not a single moment of my life be spent outside the light, love and joy of God’s presence and not a moment without the entire surrender of myself as a vessel for Him to fill full of His Spirit and His love.
Andrew Murray
[Nature teaches us that every believer should be a soul-winner]. It is an essential part of the new nature. We see it in every child who loves to tell of his happiness and to bring others to share his joys.
Andrew Murray
The world asks: what does that man own? Christ asks: how does he use what he owns?
Andrew Murray
The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard. An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing.
Andrew Murray
There is no pride so dangerous, none so subtle and insidious, as the pride of holiness.
Andrew Murray
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
Andrew Murray
Humility is the fertile soil in which the grace of God takes root and flourishes.
Andrew Murray
God has no more precious gift to a church or an age than a man who lives as an embodiment of his will, and inspires those around him with the faith of what grace can do.
Andrew Murray
The secret of homemade rule is self rule, first being ourselves what we want our children to be.
Andrew Murray
If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.
Andrew Murray
The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.
Andrew Murray
Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you.
Andrew Murray
Faith expects from God that which is beyond all expectation.
Andrew Murray
God has no pleasure in afflicting us, but He will not keep back even the most painful chastisement if He can but thereby guide His beloved child to come home and abide in the beloved Son.
Andrew Murray
Do not strive in your own strength.
Andrew Murray
Every revival, just like Pentecost, comes as the fruit of united, persistent prayer.
Andrew Murray
Before the body of Christ evangelizes the world with real earnestness, we need a great awakening of spiritual life.
Andrew Murray
Prayer is the pulse of life; the doctor can tell from it the condition of the heart. The sin of prayerlessness is, for the ordinary believer or the preacher, a clear sign that the life from God in the soul is deathly sick and utterly weary.
Andrew Murray
A true revival means nothing less than a revolution, casting out the spirit of worldliness and selfishness, and making God and His love triumph in the heart and life.
Andrew Murray
Men ought to seek with their whole hearts to be filled with the Spirit of God. Without being filled with the Spirit, it is utterly impossible that an individual Christian or a church can ever live or work as God desires.
Andrew Murray
God's truth must be put into action, not into feelings.
Andrew Murray
Abide in Jesus, the sinless One – which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God’s will and rest in His strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin.
Andrew Murray
If the church and the mission field are to be set right, everyone must begin with themselves. It must begin with you.
Andrew Murray
Nothing less than a revival is needed, one that will be a revolution and lead even the average Christian into a wholly new kind of devotion.
Andrew Murray
A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.
Andrew Murray
In trial and weakness and trouble, He seeks to bring us low, until we learn that His grace is all, and to take pleasure in the very thing that brings us and keeps us low. His strength is made perfect in our weakness. His presence filling and satisfying our emptiness, becomes the secret of humility that need never fail. The humble man has learned the secret of abiding gladness. The weaker he feels, the lower he sinks, and the greater his humiliations appear, the more power and the presence of Christ are his portion.
Andrew Murray
In man’s nature the heart is the central power. As the heart is so is the man… Our inmost being must in truth be yielded to Him… It is only as the desire of the heart is fixed upon God, the whole heart seeking for God, giving its love and finding its joy in God, that a man can draw nigh to God.
Andrew Murray
Prayer is reaching out and after the unseen; fasting, letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepens, confirms the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves, to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.
Andrew Murray
Unless we are willing to pay the price, and sacrifice time and attention and what appear legitimate or necessary duties, for the sake of the heavenly gifts we need not look for a large experience of the power of the heavenly world in our work.
Andrew Murray
Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things, “above all that we ask or think.” Each time, before you Intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!
Andrew Murray
Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work as God’s messengers be intercession; in it we secure the presence and power of God to go with us.
Andrew Murray
Let us look at our lives in the light of this experience [in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10] and see whether we gladly glory in weakness, whether we take pleasure, as Paul did, in injuries, in necessities, in distresses. Yes, let us ask whether we have learned to regard a reproof, just or unjust, a reproach from friend or enemy, an injury, or trouble, or difficulty into which others bring us, as above all an opportunity of proving how Jesus is all to us, how our own pleasure or honor are nothing, and how humiliation is in very truth what we take pleasure in. It is indeed blessed, the deep happiness of heaven, to be so free from self that whatever is said of us or done to us is lost and swallowed up in the thought that Jesus is all.
Andrew Murray
There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work.
Andrew Murray
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Sources: path2prayer.com, kimriddlebarger.com, wayoflife.org, bu.edu
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