Quotes by Andrew Murray

“Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.”

“Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am ...”

“Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.”

“What is the reason that many thousands of Christian workers in the world have not a greater influence? Nothing save thisthe prayerlessness of their service. In the midst of all their zeal in the st...”

“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.”

“The giver is more than the gift; God is more than the blessing. And our being kept waiting on Him is the only way for our learning to find our life and joy in Himself. Oh, if Gods children only kne...”

“Ask and you shall receive; everyone that asks receives. This is the fixed eternal law of the kingdom: If you ask and receive not, it must be because there is something amiss or wanting in the praye...”

“I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love to others.”

“Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.”

“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 lif...”

“Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.”

“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 privi...”

“Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.”

“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.”

“The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.”

“The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His Name with the Father in conjunction with doing His works. The disciple who lives only for Jesus' work and Kingdom, for His will and honor,...”

“If there is one thought with regard to the Church of Christ, which at times comes to me with overwhelming sorrow; if there is one thought in regard to my own life of which I am ashamed; if there is...”

“[On Anger][T]he instinct of self-preservation, setting itself against everything that interferes with our pleasures and comfort. What is called temper, with its fruits of anger and strife, has its ...”

“In the light of His example we can see, in the faith of His power we too can prove, that suffering is to Gods child the token of the Fathers love, and the channel of His richest blessing. [. . .]Su...”

“I spoke of an Army on the point of entering an enemy's territories. Answering the question as to the cause of delay: 'Waiting for supplies.' The answer might also have been: 'Waiting for instructio...”