a walk through humility

As Laurin so eloquently put it in her comment on my previous blog post, Andrew Murray’s book Humility is indeed rocking my world. In an effort to attempt to convey just a small portion of how this book has "rocked my world" over the last couple of weeks I submit to you a selection of quotes from Murray’s work in hopes that it will whet your appetite to pick up this book and take your own journey toward discovering genuine, Christ-like humility. I apologize for the length but it was tremendously hard to distill this book down... you absolutely must read it for yourself!

Chapter 1:
-Humility is simply the sense of entire nothingness, which comes when we see how truly God is all, and in which we make way for God to be all.

Chapter 2:
-It is pride that made redemption needful; it is from our pride we need, above everything, to be redeemed.
-Christ is the humility of God embodied in human nature.
-Study the humility of Jesus.

Chapter 3:

-Christ was nothing, that God might be all. He resigned himself with his will and his power entirely for the Father to work in Him.
-Every child of God, is to be the witness—that it is nothing but a vessel, a channel, through which the living God can manifest the riches of his wisdom, power, and goodness.

Chapter 4:
-Make humility the first and most essential element of discipleship. Here is the path to the higher life. Down, down, lower down!
-Jesus, the meek and lowly One, calls us to learn of him the path to God. Let us study the words we have been reading, until our heart is filled with the thought: "My one need is humility." And let us believe that what he shows, he gives; what he is, he imparts. As the meek and lowly One, he will come in and dwell in the longing heart.

Chapter 5:
-It is only by the indwelling of Christ in his divine humility that we become truly humble.

Chapter 6:
-Our love to God will be measured by our everyday intercourse with men and the love it displays.
-It is easy to think we humble ourselves before God: [but] humility towards men will be the only sufficient proof that our humility before God is real.
-It is in our unguarded moments that we really show and see what we are.
-Our humility before God has no value, but as it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow-men.
-Let us look upon every brother who tries or vexes us, and God’s means of grace, God’s instrument for our purification, for our exercise of the humility Jesus our Life breathes within us.

Chapter 7:
-Humility is the bloom and the beauty of holiness. The chief mark of counterfeit holiness is a lack of humility.
-We have as much of holiness as we have of God.
-Come and let us flee to Jesus, and hide ourselves in him until we be clothed upon with his humility.

Chapter 9:
-Jesus discovers [reveals] to us that it is indeed pride that makes faith impossible.
-Nothing can cure you of the desire of receiving glory from men, or of the sensitiveness and pain and anger which come when it is not given, but giving yourself to seek only the glory that comes from God. Let the glory of the All-glorious God be everything to you.

Chapter 10:
-Accept every humiliation, look upon every fellow-man who tries or vexes you, as a means of grace to humble you. Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.
-Self can never cast out self, even in the regenerate man. Praise God! The work has been done, and finished and perfected forever. The death of Jesus, once and forever, is our death to self.
-Sink every morning in deep, deep nothingness into the grave of Jesus; every day the life of Jesus will be manifest in thee.

Chapter 11:
-Nothing but the presence of God can reveal and expel self.
-The danger of pride is greater and nearer than we think, and the grace for humility too.

Chapter 12:
-Do what God says is your work: humble yourself. Trust him to do what he says is his work: he will exalt you. What the command does mean is this: take every opportunity of humbling yourself before God and man.
-May God teach us to believe that to be humble, to be nothing in his presence, is the highest attainment, and the fullest blessing, of the Christian life.