George Muller famous quotes

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.
-- George Muller

#Christian #Prayer #Lying

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.
-- George Muller

#Spiritual #Vigor #Proportion

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
-- George Muller

#Faith #Caring #Anxiety

The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.
-- George Muller

#Faith #Strong #Trials

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.
-- George Muller

#Prayer #Reading #Heart

If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.
-- George Muller

#Scripture #Spirit #Holy

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.
-- George Muller

#Spiritual #Men #Doe

We should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried. The more I am in a position to be tried in faith, the more I will have the opportunity of seeing God’s help and deliverance. Every fresh instance in which He helps and delivers me will increase my faith. The believer should not shrink from situations, positions, or circumstances in which his faith may be tried, but he should cheerfully embrace them as opportunities to see the hand of God stretched out in help and deliverance. Thus his faith will be strengthened.
-- George Muller

#Opportunity #Hands #May

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.
-- George Muller

#Christian #Worry #Giving

Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.
-- George Muller

#Children #Father #Mean

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.
-- George Muller

#Prayer #Believe #Names

God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops.
-- George Muller

#Christian #Order #Christian Inspirational

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.
-- George Muller

#Strength #Christian #Opportunity

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.
-- George Muller

#Soul #Firsts #Lord

When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own
-- George Muller

#Overcoming #Difficulty #Assurance

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.
-- George Muller

#Prayer #Overcoming #Done

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.
-- George Muller

#Mean Girls #World #Rich

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.
-- George Muller

#Children #Blessing #Years

The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.
-- George Muller

#Teacher #Spirit #Holy

The greater the trial, the sweeter the victory.
-- George Muller

#Victory #Trials

In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer, is, to continue praying; for 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.
-- George Muller

#Prayer #Order #Bored

Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.
-- George Muller

#Trials #Obstacles #Sometimes

Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.
-- George Muller

#Prayer #Meditation #Use

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.
-- George Muller

#Obedience #Motive #Instance

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.
-- George Muller

#Sight #Long #Doe

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.
-- George Muller

#Children #Mean #Exercise

God judges what we give by what we keep.
-- George Muller

#Giving #Judging

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.
-- George Muller

#Heart #Exercise #Trials

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.
-- George Muller

#Heart #Attachment #Long

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.
-- George Muller

#Opportunity #Etc #Body

The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.
-- George Muller

#Spiritual #Prayer #Giving

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 no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
-- George Muller

#Prayer #Giving Up #Reading

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.
-- George Muller

#Self #Taste #Approval

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.
-- George Muller

#Christian #Grace #Rewards

At last I saw Christ as my Saviour. I believed in Him and gave myself to Him. The burden rolled from off me, and a great love for Christ filled my soul. That was more than fifty years ago. I loved Jesus Christ then, but I loved Him more the year after, and more the year after that, and more every year since
-- George Muller

#Jesus #Years #Great Love

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.
-- George Muller

#Eye #Order #May

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.
-- George Muller

#Scripture #Looks #Spirit

On the ground of our own goodness we cannot expect to have our prayers answered. But Jesus is worthy, and for His sake we may have our prayers answered. There is nothing too choice, too costly, or too great for God to give Him. He is worthy. He is the spotless, holy Child, who under all circumstances acted according to the mind of God. And if we trust in Him, if we hide in Him, if we put Him forward and ourselves in the background, depend on Him and plead His name, we may expect to have our prayers answered.
-- George Muller

#Jesus #Prayer #Children

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.
-- George Muller

#Spiritual #Jesus #Children

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.
-- George Muller

#Prayer #Mistake #Heart

Only let it be trust in God, not in man, not in circumstances, not in any of your own exertions, but real trust in God, and you will be helped in your various necessities... Not in circumstances, not in natural prospects, not in former donors, but solely in God. This is just that which brings the blessing. 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. On the other hand, if our trust in the Lord is real, help will surely come.
-- George Muller

#Real #Men #Blessing

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.
-- George Muller

#Reality #Christianity #Holy

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; and further we have not only to continue in prayer unto the end, but we have also to believe that God does hear us, and will answer our prayers. Most frequently we fail in not continuing in prayer until the blessing is obtained, and in not expecting the blessing.
-- George Muller

#Prayer #Believe #Blessing

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.
-- George Muller

#Brother #Father #Creating

A brother with small earnings may ask,''Should I also give? My earning are already so small that my family can barely make ends meet.'' My reply is, ''Have you ever considered that the very reason your earnings remain so small may be because you spend everything on yourself? If God gave you more, you would only use it to increase your own comfort instead of looking to see who is sick or who has no work at all that you might help them.
-- George Muller

#Brother #Giving #Sick

My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord Jesus tarry... The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.
-- George Muller

#Jesus #Earth #Might

Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward.
-- George Muller

#Heart #Heaven #Treasure

Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord's work. Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.
-- George Muller

#Life Is #Lord #Used

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. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man may be nourished...I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God and to meditation on it.
-- George Muller

#Reading #Men #Giving

It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life. As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so it is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God -not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts.
-- George Muller

#Christian #Running #Prayer

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. I delight in speaking well of His name.
-- George Muller

#Names #Grace #Trials

God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness.
-- George Muller

#People #True Happiness

Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.
-- George Muller

#Scripture #Obedience #Holy

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.
-- George Muller

#Temptation #Soul #Essentials

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.
-- George Muller

#Regret #Done #Littles

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.
-- George Muller

#Christian #Connections #Glory

The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.
-- George Muller

#Sight #Failing #Probability

The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King.
-- George Muller

#Jesus #Kings #Son

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.
-- George Muller

#Jesus #People #Grace

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...
-- George Muller

#Perseverance #Blessed #Blessing