The LIFE AND WORKS of ANDREW MURRAY - 50 Titles - [Illustrated] Quotes

“In the second and the fourth chapters of Acts, we read that the disciples were of one heart and of one soul. During the three years they had walked with Christ, they never had been in that spirit. All Christ's teaching could not make them of one heart and one soul. But the Holy Spirit came from heaven and shed the love of God in their hearts, and they were of one heart and one soul. The same Holy Spirit that brought the love of heaven into their hearts must fill us, too. Nothing less will do. Even as Christ did, one might preach love for three years with the tongue of an angel, but that would not teach any man to love unless the power of the Holy Spirit should come upon him to bring the love of heaven into his heart.”
― Andrew Murray, The LIFE AND WORKS of ANDREW MURRAY - 50 Titles - [Illustrated]

“Pride may die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.”
― Andrew Murray, The LIFE AND WORKS of ANDREW MURRAY - 50 Titles - [Illustrated]

“All these searchings and hungerings and longings that are in your heart, I tell you, they are the drawings of the divine magnet, Christ Jesus.”
― Andrew Murray, The LIFE AND WORKS of ANDREW MURRAY - 50 Titles - [Illustrated]

“Nothing that we do ourselves can have any good in it, because it is self working in us. The good in us is the work of God’s Spirit, and it is all preparatory to that full death to self to which He seeks to bring us, and in which we are entirely yielded up to God to work all in us.”
― Andrew Murray, The LIFE AND WORKS of ANDREW MURRAY - 50 Titles - [Illustrated]

“We ought not to please ourselves. For even Christ pleased not Himself." Self-denial is the law of his life.”
― Andrew Murray, The LIFE AND WORKS of ANDREW MURRAY - 50 Titles - [Illustrated]

“Even Christ pleased not Himself: He bore the reproaches, with which men reproached and dishonoured God, so patiently, that He might glorify God and save man. Christ pleased not Himself: with reference both to God and man, this word is the key of His life. In this, too, His life is our rule and example; we who are strong ought not to please ourselves. To deny self-this is the opposite of pleasing self. When Peter denied Christ, he said: I know not the man; with Him and His interests I have nothing to do; I do not wish to be counted His friend. In the same way the true Christian denies himself, the old man: I do not know this old man; I will have nothing to do with him and his interests. And when shame and dishonour come upon him, or anything be exacted that is not pleasant to the old nature, be simply says: Do as you like with the old ties of the Adam, I will take no notice of it. Through the cross of Christ I am crucified to the world, and the flesh, and self: to the friendship and interest of this old man I am a stranger; I deny him to be my friend; I deny his every claim and wish; I know him not. The Christian who only thinks of his salvation from curse and condemnation cannot understand this; he finds it impossible to deny self. Although he may sometimes try to do so, his life mainly consists in pleasing himself. The Christian who has taken Christ as his pattern cannot be content with this. He has surrendered himself to seek the most complete fellowship with the cross of Christ. The Holy Spirit has taught him to say, I have been crucified with Christ, and so am dead to sin and self. In fellowship with Christ he sees the old man crucified, a condemned malefactor; he is ashamed to own him as a friend: it is his fixed purpose, and he has received the power for it too, no longer to please his old nature, but to deny it. Because the crucified Christ is his life, self-denial is the law of his life.”
― Andrew Murray, The LIFE AND WORKS of ANDREW MURRAY - 50 Titles - [Illustrated]

“Whether we speak of the death to self or a sinking down in humility and meekness before God or faith in the Lamb of God, it all means one thing—a deliverance from self to find our liberty and our blessedness in the living sacrifice of ourselves for all around us. THE END”
― Andrew Murray, The LIFE AND WORKS of ANDREW MURRAY - 50 Titles - [Illustrated]

“This is my commandment," the Saviour says, "That ye love one another, as I have loved you." He sometimes spoke of commandments, but the love, which is the fulfilling of the law, is the all-including one, and therefore is called His commandment--the new commandment. It is to be the great evidence of the reality of the New Covenant, of the power of the new life revealed in Jesus Christ.”
― Andrew Murray, The LIFE AND WORKS of ANDREW MURRAY - 50 Titles - [Illustrated]