Best Quotes from Humility by Andrew Murray with Page Numbers

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is, from the very nature of things, the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue.

Pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.

In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of hell.

Nothing can be our redemption, but the restoration of the lost humility, the original and only true relation of the creature to its God.

Jesus came to bring humility back to earth, to make us partakers of it, and by it to save us.

His humility is our salvation. His salvation is our humility.

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.

When the creature realizes that this is the true nobility, and consents to be with his will, his mind, and his affections, the form, the vessel in which the life and glory of God are to work and manifest themselves.

The first and chief mark of the relation of the creature, the secret of his blessedness, is the humility and nothingness which leaves God free to be all.

Pride may die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

"Have this mind in you which was also in Christ Jesus: who emptied Himself; taking the form of a servant; and humbled Himself; becoming obedient even unto death."

"It is pride that made redemption needful; it is from our pride we need above everything to be redeemed."

"The power that Satan brought from hell, and cast into man’s life, is working daily, hourly, with mighty power throughout the world."

"Our one need is to study and know and trust the life that has been revealed in Christ as the life that is now ours."

"What is the incarnation but His heavenly humility, His emptying Himself and becoming man?"

"If humility be the first, the all-including grace of the life of Jesus, then the health and strength of our spiritual life will entirely depend upon our putting this grace first too."

"It is humility alone that makes the unpassable gulf between heaven and hell."

"Until such a humility be what we seek in Christ above our chief joy, there is very little hope of a religion that will conquer the world."

"Let him begin to ask what would be the effect, if in himself and around him, if towards fellow-saints and the world, believers were really permanently guided by the humility of Jesus."

"Believer! study the humility of Jesus. This is the secret, the hidden root of thy redemption."

"He that humbleth him: shall be exalted."

"He humbled Himself, therefore God highly exalted Him."

"The Son can do nothing of Himself."

"I can of My own self do nothing; My judgment is just, because I seek not Mine own will."

"I seek not Mine own glory."

"He was nothing, that God might be all."

"His humility was simply the surrender of Himself to God."

"It is in this state of mind, in this spirit and disposition, that the redemption of Christ has its virtue and efficacy."

"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."

"Brother, are you clothed with humility?"

"Learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly of heart."—Matt. xi. 29.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth."

"Humble yourself as this little child, shall be exalted."

"Whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant."

"Humiliation is the only ladder to honor in God’s kingdom."

"He that humbleth himself shall be exalted."

"If I then, the Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s feet."

"The path in which Jesus walked...is ever the humility that makes me the servant of all."

"To be nothing before God is the glory of the creature, the spirit of Jesus, the joy of heaven."

"My one need is humility. And let us believe that what He shows, He gives; what He is, He imparts."

"Let him that is chief among you be as he that doth serve." —Luke 22:26.

"How much there may be of earnest and active, religion while humility is still sadly wanting."

"There may be some who have never yet thought very specially of the matter, and cannot at once realize its immense importance as a life question for the Church and its every member."

"All Christ’s teaching of His disciples, and all their vain efforts, were the needful preparation for His entering into them in divine power, to give and be in them what He had taught them to desire."

"It is only by the indwelling of Christ in His divine humility that we become truly humble."

"Pride is ours, and rules in us with such terrible power, because it is ourself, our very nature. Humility must be ours in the same way; it must be our very self, our very nature."

"The promise is, 'Where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly.'"

"The absence of this grace is the secret cause why the power of God cannot do its mighty work."

"It is when the truth of an indwelling Christ takes the place it claims in the experience of believers, that the Church will put on her beautiful garments and humility be seen in her teachers and members as the beauty of holiness."

"Among my readers I am sure there is more than one class...may I urge the pressing need there is for our all seeking a still deeper conviction of the unique place that humility holds in the religion of Christ."

"He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?"—1 John 4:20.

"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 insignificances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity."

"To the Romans He writes: 'In honor preferring one another'; 'Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to those that are lowly.'"

"The humble man seeks at all times to act up to the rule, 'In honor preferring one another; Servants one of another; Each counting others better than himself.'"

"True humility comes when, in the light of God, we have seen ourselves to be nothing, have consented to part with and cast away self, to let God be all."

"A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant."

"The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King."

"His humility does not consist merely in thoughts or words of self-depreciation, but, as Paul puts it, in 'a heart of humility,' encompassed by compassion and kindness, meekness and longsuffering."

"Let us look upon every brother who tries or vexes us, as God’s means of grace, God’s instrument for our purification, for our exercise of the humility Jesus our Life breathes within us."

In the creature, humility is the one thing needed to allow God’s holiness to dwell in him and shine through him.

Humility is the bloom and the beauty of holiness.

The chief mark of counterfeit holiness is its lack of humility.

Pride can clothe itself in the garments of praise or of penitence.

Deep humility must be the keynote of what the servants of Jesus say of themselves or each other.

The holiest will be the humblest.

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

Where the spirit of love is shed abroad in the heart, there is given the power of a perfect love that forgets itself.

Our humility must be the life of Christ, the Lamb of God, within us.

Unless we make, with each advance in what we think holiness, the increase of humility our study, we may find that we have been delighting in beautiful thoughts and feelings.

Humility is the very essence of holiness as of blessedness.

It is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

The more he rejoiced in God's salvation, the clearer was his consciousness that he was a saved sinner.

Never, never could he forget how terribly he had sinned.

Our only place, the only place of blessing, must be that of those whose highest joy it is to confess that they are sinners saved by grace.

The grace of God... kept the consciousness of his having once sinned... so intensely alive.

It is not sin, but God's grace showing a man what a sinner he was, that will keep him truly humble.

The law may break the heart with fear; it is only grace that works that sweet humility.

The haughtiness of man shall be brought low, and the Lord alone be exalted in that day.

Not to be occupied with thy sin, but to be occupied with God, brings deliverance from self.

"How can ye believe, which receive glory from one another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not?"

"Pride renders faith impossible."

"Faith is the confession of nothingness and helplessness, the surrender and the waiting to let God work."

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

"The humility that brings a soul to be nothing before God, that also removes every hindrance to faith."

"We might as well attempt to see without eyes, or live without breath, as believe or draw nigh to God or dwell in His love, without an all-pervading humility and lowliness of heart."

"Let us seek first of all to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God: He will exalt us."

"The cross, and the death, and the grave, into which Jesus humbled Himself, were His path to the glory of God."

"Giving yourself to seek only the glory that comes from God will cure the desire of receiving glory from men."

"The deeper you sink in humility before Him, the nearer He is to fulfill the every desire of your Faith."

"Humility is the blossom of which death to self, is the perfect fruit."

"Only humility leads to perfect death; Only death perfects humility."

"Jesus humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death. In death He gave the highest, the perfect proof of having given up His will to the will of God."

"The death to self is not your work, it is God’s work."

"If you would enter into full fellowship with Christ in His death, and know the full deliverance from self, humble yourself."

"Accept every humiliation, look upon every fellow-man who tries or vexes you, as a means of grace to humble you."

"The death to self has no surer death-mark than a humility which makes itself of no reputation, which empties out itself, and takes the form of a servant."

"Nature never can overcome, —nature, not even with—the help of grace. Self can never cast out self, even in the regenerate man."

"Believer, claim in faith the death and the life of Jesus as thine. Enter in His grave into the rest from self and its work—the rest of God."

"There is no possibility of salvation but in and by the birth of the meek, humble, patient, resigned Lamb of God in our souls."

Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the strength of Christ may rest upon me.

The place of humiliation is the place of blessing, of power, of joy.

The highest lesson a believer has to learn is humility.

Let us remember that comes not of itself, but only as it is made matter of special dealing on the part of our faithful Lord and His faithful servant.

It is indeed blessed, the deep happiness of heaven, to be so free from self that whatever is said of us or done to us is lost and swallowed up, in the thought that Jesus is all.

His strength made perfect in our weakness, His presence filling and satisfying our emptiness, becomes the secret of a humility that need never fail.

The humble man has learnt the secret of abiding gladness.

The danger of pride is greater and nearer than we think.

The humility of Jesus is our salvation: Jesus Himself is our humility.

Let us gladly glory and take pleasure in weakness, in all that can humble us and keep us low; the power of Christ will rest upon us.

He that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

God giveth grace to the humble.

Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

The command is clear: humble yourself.

Reckon humility to be indeed the mother-virtue, your very first duty before God.

He that humbleth himself shall be exalted. See that you do the one thing God asks: humble yourself.

The exaltation God promises is not... any external thing apart from Himself.

Make His glory thy care in humbling thyself; He will make thy glory His care in perfecting thy humility.

It is only in the possession of God that I lose myself.

May God teach us to believe that to be humble... is the highest attainment, and the fullest blessing of the Christian life.

retire from the world and all conversation, only for one month; neither write, nor read, nor debate anything with yourself.

stand all this month, as continually as you can, in the following form of prayer to God.

Offer it frequently on your knees; but whether sitting, walking, or standing, be always inwardly longing, and earnestly praying.

That of His great goodness He would make known to you, and take from your heart, every kind and form and degree of Pride.

He would awaken in you the deepest depth and truth of that Humility, which can make you capable of His light and Holy Spirit.

Reject every thought, but that of waiting and praying in this matter from the bottom of your heart.

with such truth and earnestness, as people in torment wish to pray and be delivered from it.

if you had twice as many evil spirits in you as Mary Magdalene had, they will all be cast out of you.

you will be forced with her to weep tears of love at the feet of the holy Jesus.

give yourself up in truth and sincerity to this spirit of prayer.