Humility

Top Highlights

“Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. 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, and allows Him as God to do all.” (Pages 5–6)

“It is in worship, not vain asceticism, that humility is born. Beating ourselves up, groveling in pitiful states, clothing ourselves in a modern equivalent of sackcloth and ashes are not the means by which to become humble, but instead make more of us than of God. But looking at the cross, the King, the empty tomb, the Father awaiting us, and the Holy Spirit inside of us is the means to humility, and Andrew Murray never lets us forget it.” (Page 2)

“The call to humility has been too little regarded in the Church because its true nature and importance has been too little apprehended. It is not a something which we bring to God or He bestows; it 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.” (Page 6)

“His humility is our salvation. His salvation is our humility.” (Page 5)

“Humility before God is nothing if not proved in humility before men.” (Page 46)