Andrew Murray — in their own words

If the love of God is in your heart you will love your brother.

God alone, who gave us the Holy Spirit, can restore the Holy Spirit in power into our life.

In the beginning of the faith-life, faith is struggling; but as long as faith is struggling, faith has not attained its strength.

The Holy Spirit is the life of the heavenly Vine, and what you must get from Christ is nothing less than a strong inflow of the Holy Spirit.

Let us seek to understand that the life of the branch is a life of much fruit, because it is a life rooted in Christ, the living, heavenly Vine.

God always meets His children where they are, howsoever weak they may be.

The part of faith is always to lay hold on just that which appears impossible or strange to human eyes.

The only means by which this unseen enemy can be conquered is faith.

As that holy will enters man’s will, as man’s will accepts and unites itself with God’s will, he becomes holy.

Let obedience, the listening to and the doing the will of God, be the joy and the glory of your life; it will give you access unto the Holiness of God.

The spirit of separation is the spirit of self-sacrifice, of surrender to the love of God; the truly separate one will be the most loving and love-winning, given up to serve God and man.

God is not only holy, but makes holy: in the revelation of the Three Persons we have the revelation of the way in which God makes holy.

Faith in Jesus is the secret of a holy life: all holy conduct, all really holy deeds, are the fruit of faith in Jesus as our holiness.

It is the New Life that is the holy life: the full apprehension of it in faith, the full surrender to it in conduct, will be the highway of holiness.

Chastisement is bringing your heart into unity with God’s Will, God’s Son, God’s Love.

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

The truth is this, pride may die in you or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Pride and self are all of man, till man has all from Christ.

Humility before God is nothing if not proved in humility before men.

Faith seeks the glory that comes from God, and it only comes where God is all.

The blessing is often superficial or transitory because they do not open the way for God to be all.

Christ is nowhere but in these virtues; when they are there, He is in His own kingdom.

Nothing but the presence of God can reveal and expel the self.

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God.

Christ longs to reveal Himself, but He cannot on account of our unbelief.

To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man.

God is a spirit: He is the Everlasting and Unchangeable One; what He is, He is always and in truth.

The knowledge of God's Father love is the first and simplest, but also the last and highest lesson in the school of prayer.

Let us beware of the prayer for forgiveness becoming a formality: only what is really confessed is really forgiven.

Nothing but this fellowship can satisfy the heart of either man or God.

The effect of the word on the heart is in most cases not immediate.

The word is nothing if it is not kept, obeyed, or done.

The only way to know God, to taste His blessedness, is through the doing of His will.

Every believer has the right and calling, to stand in direct communication with God.

Every thought of God's Word, instead of drawing him off from God, leads him to fellowship with God.

A man does not get converted without having the conviction of sin.

Throughout Scripture, in the life of every saint, of God’s own Son, throughout the history of God’s Church, God is, first of all, a prayer-hearing God.

Intercession is the most perfect form of prayer: it is the prayer Christ ever liveth to pray on His throne.

Blessed the man who is not staggered by God’s delay, or silence, or apparent refusal, but is strong in faith, giving glory to God.

It is the branch-life, existing solely for the Vine, that will have the power to pray aright.

It is the life abiding wholly in Christ that can pray the effectual prayer in the name of Christ.

Christ’s life and work, His suffering and death—it was all prayer, all dependence on God, trust in God, receiving from God, surrender to God.

Ever stand before God, in Christ; ever wait for all grace from God, in Christ; ever yield yourself to bear the more fruit the Husbandman asks, in Christ.

To be a branch means not only bearing fruit on earth, but power in prayer to bring down blessing from Heaven.

It was by obedience Christ as Vine honored the Father as Husbandman; it is by obedience the believer as branch honors Christ as Vine.

It is as our life abides in Christ, as we abide in Him, that the fruit we bear will abide.

The life of abiding and obedience, of love and joy, of cleansing and fruit-bearing, will surely lead to the power of prevailing prayer.

Man was to have the joy of receiving every moment out of the fulness of God.

God only asks of us to yield, to consent, to wait upon Him, and He will do it all.

The rest, the silence, the stillness, and the patient waiting, all find their strength and joy in God Himself.

The Lord does not demand of us a perfect fulfilment of the law; no, but only the childlike and whole-hearted surrender to live as a child with Him in obedience and truth.

The child who only wants to know the love of the father when he has something to ask, will be disappointed.

The one thing by which man can honour and enjoy his God is faith.

Our prayers must not be a vague appeal to His mercy, an indefinite cry for blessing, but the distinct expression of definite need.

Many a one wishes to be saved, but perishes because he does not will it.

In one aspect there must be faith before there can be prayer; in another the faith is the outcome and the growth of prayer.

Faith in the promise is the fruit of faith in the promiser: the prayer of faith is rooted in the life of faith.

A heart full of God has power for the prayer of faith.

Faith can only live by feeding on what is Divine, on God Himself.

Not according to what I try to be when praying, but what I am when not praying, is my prayer dealt with by God.

A prayer meeting without recognised answer to prayer ought to be an anomaly.

God will not delay one moment longer than is absolutely necessary; He will do all in His power to hasten and speed the answer.

Man was created, and has now again been redeemed, to pray, and by his prayer to have dominion.

Give yourself, and live, to do the works of Christ and you will learn to pray so as to obtain wonderful answers to prayer.

With our whole being consciously yielded to the inspiration of the Word and Spirit, our desires will be no longer ours but His; their chief end the glory of God.

Faith is obedience at home and looking to the Master: obedience is faith going out to do His will.

The chief thing is, not to know what God has said we must do, but that God Himself says it to us.

Obedience is the only path that leads to the glory of God.

The name and the power of asking go together: when the Name of Jesus has become the power that rules my life, its power in prayer with God will be seen too.

To pray in the Name of Jesus is to pray in unity, in sympathy with Him.

Every believer ought to pray much that the unity of the Church, not in external organizations, but in spirit and in truth, may be made manifest.

Our priestly power with God depends on our personal life and walk.

God needs, greatly needs, priests who can draw near to Him, who live in His presence, and by their intercession draw down the blessings of His grace on others.

Not in God, not in His secret will, not in the limitations of His promises, but in us, in ourselves is the hindrance; we are not what we should be to obtain the promise.

Christ is all, the life and the strength too for a never-ceasing prayer-life.