Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.
Andrew Murraywhen 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
Humility 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 MurrayHumiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.
Andrew MurrayTag: humility leadership humiliation promotion
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 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
Stand by; for I am holier than you!" What a parody on holiness! Jesus the Holy One is the humble One: the holiest will ever be the humblest. There is none holy but God: we have as much of holiness as we have of God.
Andrew MurrayHumility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.
Andrew MurrayTag: humility glory-of-god
Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.
Andrew MurrayTag: humility glory-of-god
Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.
Andrew MurrayTag: humility dependence
Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.
Andrew MurrayTag: humility relationships
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