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.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Fasting | Sacrifice
Do not strive in your own strength; cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you, and works in you. Strive in prayer; let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Strength | Holiness
The world asks, “What does a man own?” Christ asks, “How does he use it?”
– Andrew Murray
Stewardship
Our love to God is measured by our everyday fellowship with others and the love it displays.
– Andrew Murray
Fellowship | Love
Salvation comes through a cross and a crucified Christ.
– Andrew Murray
Salvation | The Cross
Just as water ever seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds you abased and empty, His glory and power flow in.
– Andrew Murray
Surrender
Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation.
– Andrew Murray
Faith | Expectation
Christ will always accept the faith the puts its trust in Him.
– Andrew Murray
Faith | Trust
Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Unbelief
When we pray for the Spirit’s help … we will simply fall down at the Lord’s feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Weakness | Victory
O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer
We had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple.
– Andrew Murray
Humility | Meekness | The Heart
Fasting helps express, deepens, confirms the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves, to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.
– Andrew Murray
Fasting
Fasting helps express, deepens, confirms the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves, to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.
– Andrew Murray
Fasting
The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Evangelism
God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.
– Andrew Murray
Surrender
The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard. An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Revival
May not a single moment of my life be spent outside the light, love and joy of God’s presence and not a moment without the entire surrender of myself as a vessel for Him to fill full of His Spirit and His love.
– Andrew Murray
Surrender
The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however admirable the sermon may be, however attractive the service, however faithful the pastoral visitation, none of these things can damage him or his kingdom if prayer is neglected.
– Andrew Murray
Satan | Prayer
Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work as God’s messengers be intercession; in it we secure the presence and power of God to go with us.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Intercession
Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God, and come under His influence and power, except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: “No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.”
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Holiness
Never try to arouse faith from within. You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ.
– Andrew Murray
Faith
O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer
Never try to arouse faith from within. You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ.
– Andrew Murray
Faith
The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Evangelism
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Thankfulness | The Holy Spirit
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
– Andrew Murray
God | Prayer | Love
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Thankfulness | The Holy Spirit
There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work.
– Andrew Murray
Revival | Consecration
A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand perfect and complete in all the will of God, is the only true spirit of Bible study.
– Andrew Murray
Scripture | The Bible
Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | The Holy Spirit
Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Holiness | Rewards
We had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple.
– Andrew Murray
Humility | Meekness | The Heart
May not a single moment of my life be spent outside the light, love and joy of God’s presence and not a moment without the entire surrender of myself as a vessel for Him to fill full of His Spirit and His love.
– Andrew Murray
Surrender
Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | The Holy Spirit
A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.
– Andrew Murray
Affliction | Chastisement
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
– Andrew Murray
God | Prayer | Love
One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.
– Andrew Murray
Character | Sin | Men
God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.
– Andrew Murray
Surrender
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.
– Andrew Murray
Renewal | Prayer | Evangelism
One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.
– Andrew Murray
Character | Sin | Men
Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer
Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer
The greatest test of whether the holiness we profess to seek or to attain is truth and life will be whether it produces an increasing humility in us. In man, humility is the one thing needed to allow God’s holiness to dwell in him and shine through him. The chief mark of counterfeit holiness is lack of humility. The holiest will be the humblest.
– Andrew Murray
Holiness | Humility
The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however admirable the sermon may be, however attractive the service, however faithful the pastoral visitation, none of these things can damage him or his kingdom if prayer is neglected.
– Andrew Murray
Satan | Prayer
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.
– Andrew Murray
Renewal | Prayer | Evangelism
One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.
– Andrew Murray
Character | Sin | Men
We have within us a self that has its poison from Satan–from hell–and yet we cherish and nourish it. What do we not do to please self and nourish self–and we make the devil within us strong. … Look at your own life. What are the works of hell? They are chiefly these three: self-will, self-trust, and self-exaltation.
– Andrew Murray
Self-love
Abiding fully means praying much.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer
Men ought to seek with their whole hearts to be filled with the Spirit of God. Without being filled with the Spirit, it is utterly impossible that an individual Christian or a church can ever live or work as God desires.
– Andrew Murray
The Holy Spirit
Never try to arouse faith from within. You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ.
– Andrew Murray
Faith
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 in our daily conduct.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Humility
If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer
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.
– Andrew Murray
Obedience | Holiness | Surrender
Nature teaches us that every believer should be a soul-winner. It is an essential part of the new nature. We see it in every child who loves to tell of his happiness and to bring others to share his joys.
– Andrew Murray
Evangelism
Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God, and come under His influence and power, except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: “No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.”
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Holiness
Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer
There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work.
– Andrew Murray
Revival | Consecration
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.
– Andrew Murray
Obedience | Holiness | Surrender
We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | God
Men ought to seek with their whole hearts to be filled with the Spirit of God. Without being filled with the Spirit, it is utterly impossible that an individual Christian or a church can ever live or work as God desires.
– Andrew Murray
The Holy Spirit
Unless we are willing to pay the price, and sacrifice time and attention and what appear legitimate or necessary duties, for the sake of the heavenly gifts we need not look for a large experience of the power of the heavenly world in our work.
– Andrew Murray
Gifts | Service
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 in our daily conduct.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Humility
Abide in Jesus, the sinless One – which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God’s will and rest in His strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin.
– Andrew Murray
Selfishness
Abiding fully means praying much.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer
We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | God
Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Holiness | Rewards
Abiding fully means praying much.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer
Men ought to seek with their whole hearts to be filled with the Spirit of God. Without being filled with the Spirit, it is utterly impossible that an individual Christian or a church can ever live or work as God desires.
– Andrew Murray
The Holy Spirit
We have within us a self that has its poison from Satan–from hell–and yet we cherish and nourish it. What do we not do to please self and nourish self–and we make the devil within us strong. … Look at your own life. What are the works of hell? They are chiefly these three: self-will, self-trust, and self-exaltation.
– Andrew Murray
Self-love
Unless we are willing to pay the price, and sacrifice time and attention and what appear legitimate or necessary duties, for the sake of the heavenly gifts we need not look for a large experience of the power of the heavenly world in our work.
– Andrew Murray
Gifts | Service
The secret of homemade rule is self rule, first being ourselves what we want our children to be.
– Andrew Murray
Examples
Nature teaches us that every believer should be a soul-winner. It is an essential part of the new nature. We see it in every child who loves to tell of his happiness and to bring others to share his joys.
– Andrew Murray
Evangelism
A true revival means nothing less than a revolution, casting out the spirit of worldliness and selfishness, and making God and His love triumph in the heart and life.
– Andrew Murray
Revival | Worldliness
May not a single moment of my life be spent outside the light, love and joy of God’s presence and not a moment without the entire surrender of myself as a vessel for Him to fill full of His Spirit and His love.
– Andrew Murray
Surrender
Prayer is the natural and joyous breathing of the spiritual life by which the heavenly atmosphere is inhaled and then exhaled in prayer.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer
God has no more precious gift to a church or an age than a man who lives as an embodiment of his will, and inspires those around him with the faith of what grace can do.
– Andrew Murray
Obedience
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Thankfulness | The Holy Spirit
We had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple.
– Andrew Murray
Humility | Meekness | The Heart
If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer
Do not confound work and fruit. There may be a good deal of work for Christ that is not the fruit of the heavenly Vine.
– Andrew Murray
Service
A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.
– Andrew Murray
Affliction | Chastisement
Abide in Jesus, the sinless One – which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God’s will and rest in His strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin.
– Andrew Murray
Selfishness
The greatest test of whether the holiness we profess to seek or to attain is truth and life will be whether it produces an increasing humility in us. In man, humility is the one thing needed to allow God’s holiness to dwell in him and shine through him. The chief mark of counterfeit holiness is lack of humility. The holiest will be the humblest.
– Andrew Murray
Holiness | Humility
O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer
Abide in Jesus, the sinless One – which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God’s will and rest in His strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin.
– Andrew Murray
Selfishness
A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand perfect and complete in all the will of God, is the only true spirit of Bible study.
– Andrew Murray
Scripture | The Bible
Nature teaches us that every believer should be a soul-winner. It is an essential part of the new nature. We see it in every child who loves to tell of his happiness and to bring others to share his joys.
– Andrew Murray
Evangelism
Do not confound work and fruit. There may be a good deal of work for Christ that is not the fruit of the heavenly Vine.
– Andrew Murray
Service
A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand perfect and complete in all the will of God, is the only true spirit of Bible study.
– Andrew Murray
Scripture | The Bible
Unless we are willing to pay the price, and sacrifice time and attention and what appear legitimate or necessary duties, for the sake of the heavenly gifts we need not look for a large experience of the power of the heavenly world in our work.
– Andrew Murray
Gifts | Service
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.
– Andrew Murray
Renewal | Prayer | Evangelism
God has no pleasure in afflicting us, but He will not keep back even the most painful chastisement if He can but thereby guide His beloved child to come home and abide in the beloved Son.
– Andrew Murray
Affliction | Chastisement
God has no more precious gift to a church or an age than a man who lives as an embodiment of his will, and inspires those around him with the faith of what grace can do.
– Andrew Murray
Obedience
Prayer is the natural and joyous breathing of the spiritual life by which the heavenly atmosphere is inhaled and then exhaled in prayer.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer
A true revival means nothing less than a revolution, casting out the spirit of worldliness and selfishness, and making God and His love triumph in the heart and life.
– Andrew Murray
Revival | Worldliness
Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | The Holy Spirit
When we pray for the Spirit’s help … we will simply fall down at the Lord’s feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Weakness | Victory
Fasting helps express, deepens, confirms the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves, to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.
– Andrew Murray
Fasting
Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God, and come under His influence and power, except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: “No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.”
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Holiness