Top Ten Quotes: Humility

Most of our leadership could use a good infusion of followership. I fear that in our over-platformed, uber-influencer, random-thought-leader society, we’ve forgotten what it looks like to humbly depend on the inner work of Jesus in our lives. (And yes, I fully recognize the irony of making that statement on a blog. Guilty as charged.)

That’s one of the reasons that I like to regularly read books that knock some sense into my foolish head, and especially why I was drawn to Andrew Murray’s Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness. While I’ve read several of Murray’s books in the past, I somehow missed this one. But as I’ve spent the last few weeks slowly working through it, there are a few thoughts I’m particularly chewing on.

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Here are my top ten favorite quotes:

• [Humility] is simply the realization of what nothings we really are, when we truly see how God is Everything, and when we clear out room in our hearts so that He can be everything for us.

• Hellish pride—either our own or someone else’s—is responsible for all the misery we’ve experienced.

• Whatever we may be satisfied with about our “Christian life” must be set aside as nothing until we find Jesus’ humility.

• Brothers and sisters, the path to the “higher life” is down, lower down!

• We didn’t create pride. We can’t create humility, either.

• Let’s allow our failures and shortcomings drive us to the arms of the humble Lamb of God.

• Clinging to a scrap of pride, even in secret—by selfishness or stubbornness or arrogance or grabbing after attention—strengthens your flesh.

• Each morning, sink into the tomb of Jesus by making a concrete choice before Him that your life will not be your own this day.

• [T]he danger of pride is greater and nearer than we realize—and the grace for humility is, too.

• In His efforts to redeem us, God always makes the first move. Then man’s turn comes. He struggles to obey and live up to his calling, but he comes to realize his desperate weakness. In self-despair, he must learn to die to himself, with his willing cooperation and full consent. In the end, man longs for God, not victory. That’s when faith is ready to receive God’s promise.

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