George Müller — in their own words

To this class likewise I desired to show, by a visible proof, that God is unchangeably the same.

A flow of joy came into my soul whilst realising thus the unchangeableness of our adorable Lord.

Do but stand still in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him.

Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.

In our natural state we dislike dealing with God alone.

Through our natural alienation from God we shrink from Him, and from eternal realities.

Truly, the Lord has wise purposes in allowing us to call so long upon Him for help.

How great is the blessing which the soul obtains by trusting in God, and by waiting patiently.

Would it have been right to charge God with unfaithfulness?

Ask God also to enlighten you not merely concerning your state by nature, but especially to reveal the Lord Jesus to your heart.

God sent Him, that He might bear the punishment, due to us guilty sinners.

Is not that, which alone can make us worthy to receive anything from our Heavenly Father, the righteousness of the Lord Jesus, which is imputed to those who believe in Him?

The answer is, believe in the Lord Jesus, trust in Him, depend upon Him alone as it regards the salvation of your soul.

Not to believe Him is to make Him both a liar and a perjurer.

Our motives must be godly: we must not seek any gift of God to consume it upon our lusts.

Do not men believe that God means what he appears plainly to have asserted?

We are straitened in ourselves, and suppose that we are straitened in God.

If, after prayer, I feel persuaded that I should, I fix upon it, yet so that I would desire to leave myself open to the Lord to change it if he please.

Frequently, too, a fresh answer to prayer, obtained in this way, has been the means of quickening my soul, and filling me with much joy.

The Lord helping us, we would rather suffer privation than contract debts.

How good is the Lord to have thus appeared for us, in answer to prayer, and what an encouragement to commit everything to him in prayer!

A hearty desire for the conversion of sinners, and earnest prayer for it to the Lord, is quite scriptural; but it is unscriptural to expect the conversion of the whole world.

The Lord has not laid upon us a burden which is too heavy for us; he is not a hard master.

When God gives a spirit of prayer, how easy then to pray!

The lying too long in bed not merely keeps us from giving the most precious part of the day to prayer and meditation, but this sloth leads also to many other evils.

How precious it is, even for this life, to act according to the word of God!

We may therefore profitably meditate, with God’s blessing, though we are ever so weak spiritually; nay, the weaker we are, the more we need meditation for the strengthening of our inner man.

Truly, we are poorer than ever; but through grace my eyes look not at the empty stores and the empty purse, but to the riches of the Lord only.

Do but stand still in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in him.

From my inmost soul I do ascribe it to God alone that he has enabled me to trust in him, and that hitherto he has not suffered my confidence in him to fail.

As the increase of faith is a good gift, it must come from God, and therefore he ought to be asked for this blessing.

At first, our faith will be tried very little in comparison with what it may be afterwards; for God never lays more upon us than he is willing to enable us to bear.

Faith has to do with the word of God,—rests upon the written word of God; but there is no promise that he will pay our debts.

If the work in which we are engaged is indeed the work of God, then he whose work it is is surely able and willing to provide the means for it.

The Lord has indeed manifested his tender care of and his great love towards me in Jesus, in inclining my heart cheerfully to lay all I have hitherto called my own at his feet.

Jesus came not to save painted but real sinners; but he has saved us, and will surely make it manifest.

What a striking confirmation that the Lord will help, though the necessities should increase more and more.

Where should the heart of the disciple of the Lord Jesus be, but in heaven?

Remember that the world passeth away, but that the things of God endure forever.

In all simplicity have we to tell out our heart before God, and then we have to believe that he will give to us according to our need.

It is certain that we children of God are so abundantly blessed in Jesus, by the grace of God, that we ought to need no stimulus to good works.

I do not find the life in connection with this work a trying life, but a very happy one.

How I shall be supplied with the means which are yet requisite, and when, I know not; but I am sure that God will help me in his own time and way.

How great is the blessing which the soul obtains by trusting in God and by waiting patiently.

How true that word that those that trust in the Lord shall not be confounded!

How blessed therefore is it to trust in God, and in him alone, and not in circumstances nor friends!

Is it not manifest that it is most precious in every way to depend upon God?

Do you verily depend upon him alone for the salvation of your soul?

A million of tracts may not be the means of converting one single soul; and yet how great, beyond calculation, may be the blessing which results from one single tract.

The desires of my heart were, to retain the beloved daughter, if it were the will of God; the means to return her were, to be satisfied with the will of the Lord.