As truly as God by His power once
created, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain.
Tag: creation sovereignty dependence
when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of
hell.
Tag: humility pride original-sin
Let us pray to God that other gifts may not so satisfy us, that we never grasp the fact that the absence of this grace (humility) is the secret cause why the power of God cannot do its mighty work.
Andrew MurrayThe 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 life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.
Andrew MurrayTag: humility relationships discipleship
Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.
Andrew MurrayTag: humility leadership humiliation promotion
A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King.
Andrew MurrayTag: self-centeredness servanthood
Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.
Andrew MurrayHumility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all.
Andrew MurrayHumility is, "nothing but that simple consent of the creature to let God be all, in virtue of which it surrenders itself to His working alone.
Andrew MurrayThe root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.
Andrew MurrayTag: worship
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