Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
Interpretation
One must let go of pride to experience true spiritual fulfillment.
The quote by Andrew Murray emphasizes the idea that pride is a significant barrier to spiritual growth and enlightenment. It suggests that to truly embrace the qualities of heaven, such as humility, love, and grace, one must first shed their pride, as it corrupts the soul and obstructs divine experiences.
In practice
In a spiritual retreat, one might use this quote to encourage participants to let go of their pride.
God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought to be done. We ask God first to bless our feeble efforts, instead of absolutely refusing to go unless God go before us.
The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.
The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!
Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.
Being filled with the Spirit is simply this - having my whole nature yielded to His power. When the whole soul is yielded to the Holy Spirit, God Himself will fill it.
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.
Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.
Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.
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