50 Quotes by George Muller
George Muller, a 19th-century Christian evangelist and philanthropist, is best known for his remarkable work in caring for orphans in Bristol, England. Muller's life was characterized by his unwavering faith and belief in the power of prayer. He established orphanages that operated solely on faith-based donations, refusing to solicit funds or take on debt. Through his radical approach, Muller provided shelter, education, and care for thousands of children, demonstrating the profound impact of living according to his convictions. His work not only transformed the lives of the orphans he cared for but also inspired generations with his example of selfless dedication to helping others. Muller's legacy serves as a testament to the profound influence of compassion, faith, and resilience in making a positive difference in the world.
George Muller Quotes
I seek at the beginning to get my heart into such a state that it has no will of its own in regard to a given matter. (Meaning)
I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be. (Quote Meaning)
Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you. (Meaning)
I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. (Quote Meaning)
To ascertain the Lord's will we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. (Meaning)
Nine-tenths of the difficulties are overcome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord's will, whatever it may be. (Quote Meaning)
I have joyfully dedicated my whole life to...how much may be accomplished by prayer and faith. (Meaning)
How important it is to ascertain the will of God, before we undertake anything, because we are then not only blessed in our own souls but also the work of our hands will prosper. (Quote Meaning)
The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials. (Meaning)
Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. (Quote Meaning)
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. (Meaning)
The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray. (Quote Meaning)
I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.
To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. (Meaning)
There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.
God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops.
God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.
Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.
The Christian should never worry about tomorrow or give sparingly because of a possible future need. Only the present moment is ours to serve the Lord, and tomorrow may never come...Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.
Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.
In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. (Quote Meaning)
It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray; but we must patiently, believingly continue in prayer until we obtain an answer. (Meaning)
The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts. (Quote Meaning)
Never give up praying until the answer comes.
Here is the great secret of success. Work with all your might; but trust not in the least in your work. Pray with all your might for the blessing of God; but work, at the same time, with all diligence, with all patience, with all perseverance. Pray then, and work. Work and pray. And still again pray, and then work. And so on all the days of your life. The result will surely be, abundant blessing. Whether you see much fruit or little fruit, such kind of service will be blessed.
The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord. (Meaning)
If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.
Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.
If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes. (Quote Meaning)
When sight ceases, it is the time for faith to work. The greater the difficulties, the easier it is for faith. As long as human possibilities for success remain, faith does not accomplish things as easily as when all natural prospects fail.
Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord's work. (Meaning)
Now what is food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water passes through a pipe, but considering what we read, pondering it over and applying it to our hearts.
The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also. If the Holy Ghost guides us at all, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.
I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me. I have recorded my petitions that when God has answered them, His name will be glorified.
The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.
When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own
God judges what we give by what we keep. (Quote Meaning)
Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.
The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith.
Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.
Every instance of obedience strengthens us spiritually. (Meaning)
The greater the trial, the sweeter the victory. (Quote Meaning)
When the day of recompense comes, our only regret will be that we have done so little for Him, not that we have done too much.
God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness.
The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
There were few people, perhaps, more passionately fond of travelling, and seeing fresh places, and new scenes, than myself; but now, since, by the grace of God, I have seen beauty in the Lord Jesus, I have lost my taste for these things.
Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need.
A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.
Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward. (Meaning)
If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.
Where faith begins, anxiety ends; where anxiety begins, faith end.
I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.
It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were of no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer...
If we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater.
It is true that the faith, which I am enabled to exercise, is altogether God's own gift; it is true that He alone supports it, and that He alone can increase it. (Quote Meaning)
Christians do not practically remember that while we are saved by grace, altogether by grace, so that in the matter of salvation works are altogether excluded; yet that so far as the rewards of grace are concerned, in the world to come, there is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing.
As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me.
If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him, and hence failure arises.
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.
God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.
Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.
Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this.
There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing.
The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King.
― George Muller Quotes
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