GEORGE MÜLLER

GEORGE MÜLLER QUOTES

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith,

and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

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.

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.

A WINDOW INTO HIS TESTIMONY

I had now grown so wicked, that I could habitually tell lies without blushing. And further to show hoe fearfully wicked I was, I will mention, out of many other, one great sin, of which I was guilty, before I left this place.

Through my dissipated life I had contracted debts, which I had no means of discharging; for my father could allow me only about as much as I needed for my regular maintenance. One day, after having received a sum of money from him, and having purposely shown it to some of my. companions, I afterwards feigned that it was stolen, having myself by force injured the lock of my trunk, greatly frightened at what had happened, ran into the director's room with my coat off, and told him that my money was stolen. I was greatly pitied.

Some friends also gave me now as much money as I pretended to have lost, and the circumstance afforded me a ground upon which to ask my creditors to wait longer. But this matter turned out bitterly; for the c, having ground to suspects me, though he could not prove anything, never fully restored my to his confidence.

As regards to my own feeling, though I was very wicked, yet this desperate act of depravity was too much, even for my hardened conscience; for it never afterwards allowed me to feel easy in the presence of the director's wife, who, like a kind mother, had waited on me in my illness, and on whom I had now so wilfully brought trouble.

How long-suffering was God at this time, not to destroy me at once? And how merciful that He did not suffer me to be tried before the police.

They easily would have detected that the whole was a fabrication!

I was heartily glad for many reason, but particularly on account of the latter circumstance, to be able soon after to exchange the school for the University.

From George Müller's Testimony

THE CONVICTION

I desire that all the children of God, who may read these details, may thereby be led to increased and more simple confidence in God for everything which they may need under any circumstances, and that these many answers to prayer may encourage them to pray. 

Particularly as regards the conversion of their friends and relatives, their own progress in grace and knowledge, the state of the saints whom they may know personally, the state of the Church of God at large, and the success of the preaching of the gospel.

Especially I affectionately warn them against being led away by the device of Satan, to think that these things are peculiar to me, and cannot be enjoyed by all the children of God; for though, ashas been stated before, every believer is not called upon to establish Orphan Houses, Charity School, etc., and trust in the Lord for means, yet all believers are called upon , in the simple confidence of faith, to cast all their burdens upon Him; to trust in Him for everything, and not only to make everything a subject of prayer, but to expect answers to their petitions which they have asked according to His will, and in the name of the Lord Jesus.

The Convictions and Teachings of George Müller

ON DISCERNING THE WILL OF GOD

Man asked Mr. Müller how he sought to know the will of God, in that nothing was undertaken, not even the smallest expenditure without feeling certain he was in God's will. In the following words he gave his answer. 

• I seek at the beginning to get my heart into such a state that it has not will of its own in regards to a given matter. Nine-tenths of the difficulties are overcome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord's will, whatever it may be. When one is truly in this state, it is usually but a little way to the knowledge of what His will is.

• Having done this I do not leave the result to feeling or simple impressions. If so, I make myself liable to great delusions.

• 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.

• Next I take into account providential circumstances. These plainly indicate God's will in connection with His Word and Spirit.

• I ask God in prayer to reveal His will to me aright.

• Thus through prayer to God, the study of the Word and reflection, I come to the deliberate judgement according to the best of my ability and knowledge, and if my mind is thus at peace, and continues so after two or three more petitions, I proceed accordingly. In trivial matters and in transactions involving most important issues, I have found this method always effective.

And did this plan work? one asks. Let Mr. Müller's testimony answer. "I never remember", he wrote three years before his death, "in all my Christian course, a period of  now of sixty-nine years and four months, that I ever SINCERELY AND PATIENTLY sought to know the will of God by the teaching of the Holy Ghost, through the instrumentality of the Word of God.

But I have been always directed rightly. If I honestly hear that uprightness before God were lacking, or if I did not patiently wait upon God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow men to the declarations of the Word of the living, I made great mistakes.

On Discerning the Will of God, Reprinted from George Müller - Man of Faith and Miracles, by Basil Miller, pp.50-51.

THE MAN WHO DARED TO TRUST GOD ENTIRELY

In a world that counted gold as its strongest currency, there once lived a man who built his entire life on invisible treasure. George Müller, born in 1805 in a small Prussian town, began as a liar, a thief, and a lover of comfort. Yet he would grow into one of the most radiant examples of childlike faith the modern world has ever seen. Without asking for a penny from any man, he fed thousands of orphans, clothed them, educated them, and lifted their faces toward heaven, all through quiet and persistent prayer.

His early years were tangled with mischief. He deceived his father, spent nights drinking and gambling, and mocked religion as something for the weak. But while studying at university in Halle, he stumbled into a small Bible meeting, not out of piety but curiosity. That gathering changed everything. He met people who truly lived for God, not just spoke of Him. Something eternal settled in his heart that night, and he never turned back.

After moving to England, George began to preach. But what stirred within him most deeply was not the pulpit—it was compassion. He could not bear to see children wandering the streets, cold and alone, treated as burdens by society. Yet instead of organizing committees or fundraising campaigns, he did something almost unthinkable: he prayed. And then he kept praying.

He asked God to provide everything, without ever telling people his needs. Food. Beds. Fuel. Clothing. Buildings. Teachers. He never went into debt and never made appeals. And still, the supplies arrived. There were mornings when no food remained, and yet George would gather the children at the table and thank God for the meal they didn’t yet have. Moments later, a baker would knock with surplus bread or a milkman’s cart would break down near the orphanage, offering its contents. These were not coincidences strung together—they were evidence of a Father who hears.

Over time, he built not one, but five large orphan houses on Ashley Down in Bristol. He cared for over ten thousand children in his lifetime. He educated them, not only in reading and math, but in truth and trust. Many grew up to serve in ministry or missions themselves, carrying forward the grace that had cradled them.

George also established a Bible and missionary society and supported gospel workers around the world—all without ever appealing for funds. The sum of what flowed through his hands, simply by faith, amounted to millions in today’s terms. Yet he died owning almost nothing, content and radiant.

Late in life, when others might have slowed, he traveled the globe preaching about the God who had never failed him. He spoke in dozens of countries, sometimes through an interpreter, sometimes in the native tongue he had taken the time to learn. His eyes still sparkled with wonder. He would often say, “The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.”

When George Müller passed away in 1898, shops closed in Bristol. Streets filled with mourners. Yet his legacy was not in the buildings or even in the children who grew up under his care. It was in the way he taught the world to pray—not with polished words, but with a heart that truly believes.

George Müller showed us what it looks like to trust God with everything, and to do so without panic or pride. He proved that faith is not loud or frantic—it is quiet, steady, and sure. He reminded us that God sees, provides, and cherishes His children more tenderly than we dare to hope. Through this one life lived with uncluttered trust, the world glimpsed the kindness and faithfulness of God, not in theory, but in the rising and setting of each day.