HUMILITY by Andrew Murray
I recently finished reading through Andrew Murray’s short, but very powerful, booklet titled Humility and wanted to share a few of my favorite quotes with you. I pray these will help increase your affections for Christ today and be helpful reminders in your own fight for humility. May the Lord keep us humble under His mighty hand and give us grace to in humility count others more significant than ourselves!
9 Quotes on Humility from Andrew Murray:
Let us study the character of Christ until our souls are filled with love and admiration of His lowliness.
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.
Pride and humility are the two master powers, the two kingdoms in strife for the eternal possession of man. Pride and self have the all of man, till man has his all from Christ.
It is in our most unguarded moments that we really show and see what we are.
The chief mark of counterfeit holiness is its lack of humility.
Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.
Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.
The cross, and the death, and the grave, into which Jesus humbled Himself, were His path to the glory of God. And they are our path.
Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the divine glory. (perhaps my favorite of the entire booklet!)
Some Scriptures for Reflection and Prayer on Humility:
For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down. -Psalm 18:27
He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. -Psalm 25:9
The Lord lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground. -Psalm 147:6
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom. -Proverbs 11:2
Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. -Zechariah 9:9
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. -Matthew 23:12
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. -Philippians 2:8
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, -Colossians 3:12
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. -James 4:10
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. -1 Peter 3:8
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, -1 Peter 5:6