Humility

September 12, 2011

The great test of whether the holiness we profess to seek or to attain is truth and life will be whether it be manifest in the increasing humility it produces. In the creature, humility is the one thing needed to allow God’s holiness to dwell in him and shine through him. In Jesus, the holy one of God who makes us holy, a divine humility was the secret of his life and his death and his exaltation; the one infallible test of our holiness will be the humility before God and men which marks us. Humility is the bloom and the beauty of holiness.

– Andrew Murray –

September 5, 2011

Until a humility which will rest in nothing less than the end and death of self; which gives up all the honor of men as Jesus did, to seek the honor that comes from God alone; which absolutely makes and counts itself nothing, that God may be all, that the Lord alone may be exalted – until such a humility be what we seek in Christ above our chief joy, and welcome at any price, there is very little hope of a religion that will conquer the world.

– CS Lewis –

August 27, 2011

The real test of being in the Presence of God is that you forget about yourself altogether.

– CS Lewis –

August 25, 2011

God has made me as bread for His chosen ones, and if it is necessary for me to be ground in the teeth of lions in order to feed His children, then blessed be the name of the Lord.

– St. Ignatius, Early Christian Martyr –
(quoted in Cowman, Streams in the Desert, 1996, pg 238)

July 23, 2011

God’s work of refining and purifying the soul must go on until his servants are so humbled, so dead to self, that when called into active service, they may have an eye single to the glory of God.”

– EG White –
in Review and Herald April 10, 1894

July 4, 2011

As long as I am something, Jesus cannot be everything.

– Andrew Murray –

July 2, 2011

The most Holy men are always the most lowly men. The coat of humility 
should always be worn upon the back of Christianity.

– Dyer –