Humility: The Beauty of Holiness

“Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.””

— Andrew Murray

“Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.””

— Andrew Murray

“Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.””

— Andrew Murray

“Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.””

— Andrew Murray

“The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. 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 diving glory.””

— Andrew Murray

“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 Murray

“The 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 Murray

“Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.””

— Andrew Murray

“Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility of the kingdom of heaven, that this is the royal spirit that the King of heaven displayed, that this is Godlike, to humble oneself, to become the servant of all!””

— Andrew Murray