The Essential Works of Andrew Murray Quotes

“Let every one then that has received this new life, cultivate this great conviction: it is eternal life that works in me: it works with Divine power: I can and shall become what God will have me be: Christ Himself is my life: I have to receive Him every day as my life given by God to me, and He shall be my life in full power.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“Do not live in your human imagination of what is possible. Live in the word - in the love and infinite faithfulness of the Lord Jesus.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“The object of trial is just to draw you away from what is earthly, in order that you may turn to God and give Him time to unite your will with His perfect will.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“This is throughout scripture the great central promise: I am with you.”
― Andrew Murray, Essential Works of Andrew Murray - Updated

“Blessed is the man who has made that “I have nothing” the motto of his ministry.”
― Andrew Murray, Essential Works of Andrew Murray - Updated

“the New Testament never uses the expression 'help' of the grace of God in the soul. We have absolutely no power - God is not to help us, because we are weak: no, He is to give His life and His power in us as entirely impotent. He that discerns this aright will learn to live by faith alone.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“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.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“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.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“It is wonderful how glorious that life of faith becomes for him who is content to have nothing, or feel nothing, in himself, and always to live on the power of his Lord.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“He requires of us nothing more than what He has prepared for us power to do in His Holy Spirit. The new life is a life in the power of Christ through the Spirit.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“the nearer we are to God, the less we are in ourselves, but the stronger we are in Him. The more I see of God, the less I become, the deeper is my confidence in Him. To become lowly, let God fill eye and heart. Where God is all, there is no time or place for man.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“Holiness is more than purity. In Scripture we see that cleansing precedes holiness. (2 Cor. 7:1; Eph. 5:26,27; 2 Tim. 2:21) Cleansing is the taking away of that which is wrong; liberation from sin. Holiness is the filling with that which is good, divine, with the disposition of Jesus.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“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.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“The more I understand and contemplate Jesus' surrender of Himself for me, the more do I give myself again to Him. The surrender is a mutual one: the love comes from both sides. His giving of Himself makes such an impression on my heart, that my heart with the self-same love and joy becomes entirely His.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“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.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“Faith is nothing other than the certitude that God speaks truth.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“One verse chosen to meet our needs, read ten times and then laid up in the heart, is better than ten verses read once. Only so much of the word as I actually receive and inwardly appropriate for myself, is food for my soul.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“Beloved, are you willing to say this? Are you willing to give up your sins, to walk with God continually, to submit yourself wholly to the will of God, and have no will of your own apart from His will? Are you going to live a perfect life? I hop you are, for I believe in such a life;-not perhaps in the sense in which you understand "perfection"-entire freedom from wrong-doing and all inclination to it, for while we live in the flesh the flesh will lust against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh; but the perfection spoken of in the Old Testament as practiced by some of God's saints, who are said to have "served the Lord with a perfect heart.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray

“To deny or ignore the existence of an enemy is to give him a great chance against you; and the flesh is in the believer to the very end, a force of evil to be reckoned with continually, an evil force inside a man, and yet, thank God, a force which can be so dealt with by the power of God, that it shall have no power to defile the heart or deflect the will.”
― Andrew Murray, The Essential Works of Andrew Murray