With Christ in the School of Prayer Quotes

“The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His Name with the Father in conjunction with doing His works. The disciple who lives only for Jesus' work and Kingdom, for His will and honor, will be given the power to appropriate the promise. Anyone grasping the promise only when he wants something very special for himself will be disappointed, because he is making Jesus the servant of his own comfort. But whoever wants to pray the effective prayer of faith because he needs it for the work of the Master will learn it, because he has made himself the servant of his Lord's interests.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“It is not the law, and not the book, not the knowledge of what is right, that works obedience, but the personal influence of God and His living fellowship. And even so it is not the knowledge of what God has promised, but the presence of God Himself as the Promiser, that awakens faith and trust in prayer.”
― Andrew Murray, WITH CHRIST IN THE SCHOOL OF PRAYER

“Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“Precious lessons that Jesus has to teach us this day. We seek God's gifts: God wants to give us HIMSELF first. We think of prayer as the power to draw down good gifts from heaven; Jesus as the means to draw ourselves up to God.”
― Andrew Murray, WITH CHRIST IN THE SCHOOL OF PRAYER

“The entrance His words find with me, will be the measure of the power of any words with Him.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“Christ teaches us to pray not only by example, by instruction, by command, by promises, but by showing us HIMSELF, the ever-living Intercessor, as our Life. It is when we believe this, and go and abide in Him for our prayer-life too, that our fears of not being able to pray aright will vanish, and we shall joyfully and triumphantly trust our Lord to teach us to pray, to be Himself the life and the power of our prayer.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in The School of Prayer

“Patient, persevering, believing prayer that is offered up to God in the name of the Lord Jesus has always brought the blessing sooner or later.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer: A 31-Day Study

“Thy kingdom come.' The Father is a King and has a kingdom. The son and heir of a king has no higher ambition than the glory of his father's kingdom. In time of war or danger this becomes his passion; he can think of nothing else. The children of the Father are here in the enemy's territory, where the kingdom, which is in heaven, is not yet fully manifested. What more natural than that, when they learn to hallow the Father-name, they should long and cry with deep enthusiasm: `Thy kingdom come.”
― Andrew Murray, WITH CHRIST IN THE SCHOOL OF PRAYER

“If I bear the name of another, I have given up my own name and my own independent life.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“And so He teaches us two lessons of deep importance about prayer. The one is that faith needs a life of prayer in which to grow and keep strong. The other is that prayer needs fasting for its full and perfect development.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“We seek God's gifts; God wants to give Himself to us first. We think of prayer as the power to draw good gifts from heaven and Jesus as the means to draw ourselves to God. We want to stand at the door and cry; Jesus wants us to enter first and realize that we are friends and children.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“His love is the basis of everything, and we must get on that as the solid foundation of our religious life and not grow up into that but grow up out of it.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“The value of the promise depends on the promiser; faith in the promise depends on my knowledge of the promiser.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“Our prayers must not be a vague appeal to His mercy or an indefinite cry for blessing, but the distinct expression of definite need. It is not that His loving heart does not understand our cry or is not ready to hear, but He desires it for our own sake. Such definite prayer teaches us to know our own needs better. It demands time and thought and self-scrutiny to find out what really is our greatest need.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“That a child obtains what he asks from his father looks so perfectly natural, we almost count it the father's duty to give. But with a friend, it is as if the kindness is more free, dependent not on nature but on sympathy and character....But then we must be living as His friends. I am still a child even when a wanderer, but friendship depends upon the conduct.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“There is a twofold use of prayer: the one is to obtain strength and blessing for our own life; the other is intercession - the higher, true glory of prayer for which Christ has taken us into His fellowship and teaching. This is where prayer is the royal power of a child of God who exercises in heaven on behalf of others and even of the kingdom.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“The master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“O let us listen to Christ in Gethsemane, as He calls, If ye abide in me, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.' Being of one mind and spirit with Him in His giving up everything to God's will, living like Him in obedience and surrender to the Father; this is abiding in Him; this is the secret of power in prayer.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“It is often spiritual laziness that, under the appearance of humility, professes to have no will, because it fears the trouble of searching out the will of God, or when found, the struggle of claiming it in faith.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“It is evident everywhere that Paul felt he was a member of a body - a body on which he was dependent for sympathy and cooperation. He counted on the prayers of these churches to gain for himself what otherwise might not be given. To him the prayers of the church were as real a factor in the work of the kingdom as the power of God.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“The image he bears decides his destiny.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“There may come times of intense desire when it is felt strongly how the body with its appetites, lawful though they are, still hinders the spirit in its battle with the powers of darkness, and the need is felt to keep it under control. We are creatures of the senses. Our mind is helped by what comes to us embodied in concrete form; fasting helps to express, to deepen, and to confirm our resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything - to sacrifice ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“We know how faith, like water, can exercise the irresistible power it has and be gathered up and accumulated, until the stream can rush in full force; likewise, there must often be a heaping up of prayer, until God sees that the measure is full, and the answer comes.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“Most churches think their members are gathered simply to take care of and build up each other. They don't know that God rules the world by the prayers of His saints, that prayer is the power by which Satan is conquered, or that by prayer the church on earth has disposal of the powers of the heavenly world. They don't remember that by His promise Jesus has consecrated every assembly in His name to be a gate of heaven where His presence is to be felt and His power experienced in the Father as He fulfills their desires.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“Who can say what power a church could develop and exercise if it gave itself to the work of prayer day and night for the coming of the kingdom, for God's power on His servants, and to His Word for the glorifying of God in the salvation of souls?”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“Life is a whole, and the pious hour of prayer is judged by God from the ordinary frame of the daily life where the hour of prayer is only a small part. Not the feeling I call up but the tone of my life during the day is God's criterion of what I really am and desire.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“In love to our brothers, we have the evidence of love to the Father, the basis of confidence before God, and the assurance that our prayer will be heard.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

“We not only learn to say, 'My Father,' but also 'Our Father.' Nothing would be more unnatural than for the children of a family to always meet their father alone but never in the united expression of their desires or their love.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer