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.
Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?
The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.
The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.
A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.
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