Inspirational Quotes by Andrew Murray
“It is the one who does what God commands to whom God can entrust His work, whom God can use to be a type of savior to others.”
“promises, is very much hidden. While trusting in their Savior for pardon and for help, and seeking to some extent to obey Him, they have hardly realized to what closeness of union, to what intimacy”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Abide in Christ
“He chiefly used when speaking of the relations of the disciples to Himself was: "Follow me." When about”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Abide in Christ
“ignorance is the cause of the unbelief that fails of the inheritance. If, in our orthodox Churches, the abiding in”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Abide in Christ
“blood, I am confident that many would be found to accept”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Abide in Christ
“experience of the purity and the power, the love and”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Abide in Christ
“those who have not yet fully understood what the Savior meant with His command, or who have feared”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Abide in Christ
“reach, that these meditations are now published. It is only by frequent repetition that a child learns its lessons.”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Abide in Christ
“mind for a time on some one of the lessons of faith,”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Abide in Christ
“take and thoroughly assimilate them. I have the hope that to some, especially young believers, it will be a help to come and for a month day after”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Abide in Christ
“Step by step we shall get to see how truly this promise-precept”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Abide in Christ
“us to obey it, how indispensable the experience of its blessing is to a healthy Christian life, and”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Abide in Christ
“how unspeakable the blessings are that flow from it. As”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Abide in Christ
“we surrender ourselves, and accept in faith the whole”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Abide in Christ
“Holy Spirit will make the word to be spirit and life; this”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Abide in Christ
“God Has His Own Plans First of all, we see that God has His own plans regarding His kingdom. His church at Antioch had been established. God had certain plans and intentions regarding Asia and Europe. He had conceived the plans; they were His, and He made them known to His servants. We might talk about and plan some work for the Lord, but we do not know all the details. We know that our great Commander is in charge, and even His generals and officers do not always know the plans. They often receive sealed orders, and they have to wait on Him for what He gives them as orders. God in heaven has work for us to do. God has wishes and a will in regard to the work to be done and the way it must be done. Blessed is the man who gets into God’s secrets and works under God, doing God’s work God’s way.”
“Oh, friends, we must have such a beginning. Some people would forsake everything for the sake of their religion. For a false religion multitudes have given up all. Some people would forsake all for the sake of their church. Some people would forsake all for the sake of their fellow citizens. That is not what is needed though. We need to forsake all for the sake of Jesus. We need to let Him come into our lives and take possession of our hearts. Do we have a life of tender personal attachment to Jesus and joy in Him? I do not ask if you have perfectly achieved this, but I do wonder if we can honestly say, “It is what I am striving after. It is my main desire and goal. It is what I long for above everything else. Jesus Christ must have my heart and my will every moment of every day.”
“The Holy Spirit has not only power, but He has the Spirit of love. He is troubled over this dark world and is troubled over our country. He is concerned about every sphere of work within it, and He is willing to bless. Why isn't there more blessing? There can only be one answer. We have not honored the Holy Spirit as we should have done. Is there anyone who can honestly say that we have? Every thoughtful and sincere heart should be ready to cry out, 'God, forgive me that I have not honored the Holy Spirit as I should have done, that I have grieved Him, that I have allowed self and the flesh and my own will to work where the Holy Spirit should have been honored. May You forgive me that I have allowed self and the flesh and the will to have the place that You intended for the Holy Spirit.”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Absolute Surrender
topics: holy-spirit
“The condition for obtaining God's full blessing is absolute surrender to Him.”
― Andrew Murray ,
from Absolute Surrender
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Andrew Murray (1828 - 1917)
Brother Andrew Murray was a well-known writer/preacher in South Africa who ministered amongst the Dutch Reformed churches. His writings now are widely accepted by modern evangelicals and he is published more than ever in his life-time.Some of his better known books titles are: "Abide In Christ", "Absolute Surrender," and "Humility." His burden for the body of Christ were teachings on the abiding Spirit of Christ in the believer, the life of faith with God daily, and the life of intercession and prayer in the Church.
Andrew Murray was possibly the strongest spokesman of the Philadelphian age to expound the Body's necessity to abide in Christ, like the Apostle John before him.
Murray was born into a family of four children in the then remote Graaff-Reinet region (near the Cape) of South Africa. Educated in Scotland, which was followed by theological studies in Holland, Andrew returned to his native land to work as a missionary and minister. Given the daunting task of ministering to Bloemfontein, a remote region of 50,000 square miles and 12,000 people beyond the Orange River, Murray already began to sense the need to for the "deeper Christian life".
Though successful in preaching and bringing many to Christ, Murray found many of his greatest lessons in the School of Suffering, as will all who follow in the path of obedience.
Andrew Murray was one of four children born to Pastor Andrew, Sr., and Maria Murray. He was raised in what was considered to be the most remote corner of the world - Graaff-Reinet, South Africa. Educated in Scotland and Holland, in 1848 Andrew, Jr., returned to South Africa as a missionary and minister with the Dutch Reformed Church. His first appointment was to Bloemfontein, a territory of nearly 50,000 square miles and 12,000 people.
Andrew and his brother John had been in close contact with a revival movement in Scotland, an evangelical extension of the ongoing Second Great Awakening in America. He prayed for the same sort of awakening for the church in South Africa and wrote, "My prayer is for revival, but I am held back by the increasing sense of my own unfitness for the work. I lament the awful pride and self complacency that have till now ruled my heart. O that I may be more and more a minister of the Spirit." (J. du Plessis, The Life of Andrew Murray)
In 1860, revival did come to the churches of Cape Town, South Africa, and subsequently spread to surrounding towns and villages. Even remote farms and plantations felt the impact as lives were changed. Where once the churches had not been able to find one man ready to be a leader for God, the revival raised up 50 in Murray's Cape Town parish alone. There were more conversions in one month in that parish than in the whole course of its previous history. (Leona Choy, Andrew Murray: Apostle of Abiding Love)
Greatly concerned for the spiritual guidance of new converts and renewed Christians, Andrew Murray wrote over 240 books. His writings reflect his own longing for a deeper life in Christ and his prayer that others would long for and experience that life as well.