After years of thinking and then forgetting the thought, that I should, I am finally reading through Andrew Murray's Humility. Its not always the most fun thing, but at other times its so exciting and liberating. He has a way of packing a powerful punch in just a few words. Here are some of my favorite thoughts:
* "...as we lose ourselves in the overwhelming greatness of redeeming love, humility becomes to us the consummation of everlasting blessedness and adoration."
* "....nothing is more natural and beautiful and blessed than to be nothing, that God may be all..."
* "...the relation of the creature to God could only be one of unceasing, absolute, universal dependence."
* "...it [humility] alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all."
* "...humility is simply acknowledges the truth of his position as creature, and yielding to God His place."
* "...the being and doing nothing of ourselves, that God may be all."
* "His service is our highest liberty."
* "My one need is humility."
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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Humility is a hard topic to talk about because we can suddenly get boastful trying to say we understand it. Perhaps the most humbling thing to say is, "There, but for the grace of God, go I."
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