Andrew Murray, really....!!!!

I see that the statue of Andrew Murray has also been vandalised in the past week. For those of us who don't know anything about Andrew Murray, please click on this link for some info. Andrew Murray (not Andy the Tennis player) was a missionary to South Africa, and in this week of Xenophobic violence, it is worth noting that he was certainly a 'foreigner' in every sense of the word. His father was Scottish and Presbyterian, but served within the Dutch Reformed church, while his mother had links with the French Huguenots and the German Lutherans - that is tough to beat!

I still can't understand why someone would want to deface his statue after all the good he did in our nation, but then again, people are also defacing statues of Gandhi. Some people are just never going to get it!!

Anyway, here are some of my favourite Andrew Murray quotes:

"Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.” 

"Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.” 

"Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child."

"How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.”

Living in Grace
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