Andrew Murray Quotes

       Andrew Murray
       1828-1917
      
       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.
      

One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.     Topics: Character, Sin Christ will always accept the faith the puts its trust in Him.     Topics: Faith Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation.     Topics: Faith Our love to God is measured by our everyday fellowship with others and the love it displays.     Topics: Friendship, Love The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.     Topics: God, Prayer, Love We had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple.     Topics: Humility While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.     Topics: Jesus, Prayer, Evangelism Just as a servant knows that he must first obey his master in all things, so the surrender to an implicit and unquestionable obedience must become the essential characteristic of our lives.     Topics: Obedience, Holiness Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.     Topics: Prayer Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.     Topics: Prayer Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue. Gods voice in response to mine is its most essential part.     Topics: Prayer We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.     Topics: Prayer, God