Reflecting on the words of Andrew Murray

Over the past few weeks I have been reading Humility by Andrew Murray and I just wanted to share here some quotes that my mind has been chewing on.

...it is not sin that humbles but grace.

Humility, the place of entire dependence upon God, is from the very nature of things the first duty and the highest virtue of His creatures.

It is pride that made redemption necessary; it is from our pride that we need, above everything else, to be redeemed.

A lesson of deepest importance is that the only humility that is really ours is not the kind we try to show before God in prayer, but the kind we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct.

The presence of God is not dependent upon times and seasons, but upon a soul ready to do His will and forget itself.

Being occupied with self, even having the deepest self-abhorrence, can never free us from self.

As we see how in their very nature pride and faith are irreconcilably at odds, we learn that faith and humility are at their root one, and that we can never have more of true faith than we have of true humility.

...How can I die to self? Death to self is not your work; it is God's work.

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

Through trials and failures and troubles, [God] seeks to bring us to the place where His grace is everything.

Make [God's] glory your motivation to humble yourself; He will make your glory His motivation to perfect your humility.