The copy of Andrew Murray’s classic book, Humility, which sits on my desk as I type this blog post, was purchased and read in 1985, when I was only one-year old in Christ. Immediately its impact was felt. Since that time, I can’t recall how many times I’ve picked it up to reread or to just browse at some highlighted or underlined sentences. To this day, it stands at the top of books that I’ve read on this topic. So let me encourage you to get and read it, by sharing some favorite quotes from my faded copy.
The Glory of Humility
The Christian life has suffered loss, because believers have not been distinctly guided to see that nothing is more natural and beautiful and blessed than to be nothing, so that God may be all. It has not been made clear that it is not sin that humbles us most, but grace. It is the soul, led through its sinfulness to be occupied with God in His wonderful glory as God, as Creator and Redeemer, that will truly take the lowest place before Him. (p. 6)
[Jesus, in Matthew 23:11] simply taught us the blessed truth that there is
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