George Muller Quotes

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

It is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what is I will do it.

In this Situation of this Assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find Political Truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not, hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our Understandings?

In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.

I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want.

So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.

Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.

I hope to God that I know what I am doing.

If you don't have much passion, well, get on your face and pray for the passion and get into the word of God. That's what I've been sharing. That's the whole concept.

There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God.

There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.

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.

I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. 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.

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

I start work by spending time in personal Bible study. Because my projects center on a question in my own faith walk, I find Bible study essential. And God gives me scriptures daily that speak to the question with which I'm struggling.