21 Quotations from Abide in Christ by Andrew Murray #1.10
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21 Quotations from
Abide in Christ by Andrew Murray #1.10
Compiled by Olea Nel
1
The blessings you once enjoyed was lost. The answer is very simple: you wandered from the Lord.
2
The first coming gave but single drops to taste—‘tis only the abiding that can really satisfy the thirsty soul and drink of the river of pleasure that are at His right hand.
3
You did well to come; you do better to abide.
4
Abiding in Him is not a work that we have to do as the condition for enjoying His salvation, but consenting to let Him do all for us. Our part is simply to yield, to trust, and to wait for what He has engaged to do.
5
Our rest is in Christ, and not something He gives apart from Himself. And so it is only in having Him that the rest can really be kept and enjoyed.
6
The daily inflowing of the life-sap of the Holy Spirit is the Christian’s only power to bring forth fruit.
7
It is for fruit—much fruit—that the Father has made us one with Jesus.
8
The old nature of the believer remains evil to the last.
9
God does His work by moving us to do our work.
10
Retire frequently with Him into the inner chamber of the heart, where the gentle voice of the Spirit is only heard when all is still.
11
There is no other way of becoming holy but by becoming partakers of the holiness of Christ.
12
The measure of sanctification will depend on the measure of abiding in Him. As the soul learns wholly to abide in Christ, the promise is increasingly fulfilled.
13
Faith is the putting ourselves quietly into God’s hands for Him to do His work.
14
Remember, it is God who worketh both to will and to do.
15
Exercise yourself in living in the present moment. Each time your attention is free to occupy itself with the thought of Jesus—whether it be with time to think and pray, or for a few passing seconds—let your first thought be to say: now at this moment I do abide in Christ.
16
The interchange of giving up and taking in is a life process, and may not cease for a moment.
17
The surrender of all to Christ—is it a single step, the act and experience of a moment—or is it a course of daily renewal and progressive attainment? It is both.
18
If but your ear be open, your thoughts brought into subjection, your heart prepared in silence to wait upon God and to hear what He speaks, He will reveal to you His secrets.
19
One would think that no message could be more beautiful or welcome that this: that we may rest and be quiet, and that God will work for us and in us. And yet, how far this is from being the case. And how slow many are to learn that quietness is blessedness; that quietness is strength; that quietness is the source of the highest activity—the secret of all true abiding in Christ.
20
The secret of the prayer of faith is the life of faith—the life that abides in Christ alone.
21
When we gather together all the attributes of God—His infinity, His perfection, His immensity, His majesty, His omnipotence—and consider them as the rays of glory of His love, we still fail in forming any conception of what that love must be. It is the love that passeth understanding.
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First published in: http://www.onandrewmurray.com
Tags: Abide in Christ by Andrew Murray, 21 Quotations from Abide in Christ
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You may also be interested in reading the previous blogs in this series on Abide in Christ:
#1.1 When and why it was written.
#1.2 Background to the English version.
#1.4 What does it mean to abide?
#1.6 Having confidence that God will keep us
#1.7 To abide: Like a branch on the vine
#1.8 To abide: Through God's pruning knife
#1.9 To abide: By letting God mortify self
