A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings Quotes

“I, who had not a single shilling regular income, who had not a single fee for any thing I did in my service, either as minister of the gospel or Director of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution, was so abundantly cared for by my Heavenly Father, because I really depended on Him, and really trusted in Him, and did not merely say so.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“Admire, dear Christian reader, with us the Lord’s kindness and faithfulness, who thus continually, for the sake of our Lord Jesus, in answer to our believing, expecting prayers is pleased to help us. Will not you also, if you have never acted in like manner, confide in God in all your various trials, difficulties and necessities; and will you not also look out for answers to your prayers? Make but trial of this way, and you will find out in your own happy experience, how precious it is, thus to walk in fellowship with God.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“Lord’s kindness and faithfulness, who thus continually, for the sake of our Lord Jesus, in answer to our believing, expecting prayers is pleased to help us. Will not you also, if you have never acted in like manner, confide in God in all your various trials, difficulties and necessities; and will you not also look out for answers to your prayers? Make but trial of this way, and you will find out in your own happy experience, how precious it is, thus to walk in fellowship with God.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“but all comes in answer to prayer; we only speak to Him about our need. And this we have continually to do.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“When I look at His kindness to me in saving my guilty soul, I am overwhelmed with the boundlessness of His love and grace towards me in Christ Jesus; and when I look at His kindness to me, even as it regards temporal things, I know not where to begin, nor where to end, in speaking well of His name. I do desire to magnify Him, and therefore I declare in this public way His great goodness to me in thus so abundantly supplying my temporal necessities; and I do so also, if it may please God, by this means, to encourage the hearts of His children, more and more unreservedly to trust in Him.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“But my hope is in God, and in Him alone.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“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 Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“If the reader has had typhus fever, scarlet fever, the smallpox, or other infectious diseases in the house, he will know how the natural tendency is, to be very anxious under such circumstances, and, in this great anxiety, often to anticipate the very worst as to the infection, and to be in danger of acting unscripturally; whilst, on the other hand, if the ordinary proper precautions are used, we cast our burden upon God, and say, it is my Heavenly Father who sends this disease; He, who is full of pity and compassion, will not lay more upon me than He will enable me to bear, therefore I will trust in His love and wisdom and power; and then the soul will be calm and quiet, yea very peaceful. This is to be aimed after, not only for our own good, but because it tends to the glory of God, and is a testimony to the unconverted as to the reality of the things of God, and tends to the strengthening of the faith of our fellow believers.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“And thus in hundreds of other difficulties, necessities, and wants, we have invariably found that prayer and faith, our universal remedy, was sufficient.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“we expect fruit, abundant fruit, to result from our labours, though this fruit should only in a small degree be witnessed by us in this world.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“I do not pretend to miracles in connexion with this work; I am grieved, indeed, to hear this work called a miracle; but I do confess that I carry it on simply by prayer and faith in God.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“It is impossible to use for God the much or the little with which He may intrust us, without being blessed in our souls;”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“But in whatever way the reader may feel, I have to do my part, which is, to record the Lord’s unbounded kindness and faithfulness to me.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“Be encouraged, therefore, you servants of the Lord Jesus, to look to the Lord for means for His service; but 1, Seek really to trust in Him only. 2, Pray for means, and look out for an answer to your prayers. 3, Wait patiently for His help, it will surely come in God’s own time. 4, Avoid working a deliverance of your own, or running before the Lord, by going in debt for the needed supplies for His precious work.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“Were we thus to look at the dealings of God with us, seeking to recognise him habitually, and taking them all as intended for our blessing; and, in addition to this, were we to remember how much heavier our trials might be, we should be more truly grateful for our lot.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“All Christians do not look on trials, afflictions, losses, pain, sickness, bereavement, as on dispensations intended by God for their good; and yet they are invariably intended for our good.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“for though there is much to sorrow over, in these days, in connexion with the Church of God, yet there is the bright side too, and there are many things yet to be found among the children of God, to gladden the hearts of those who love the Lord.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“the blessedness of really knowing God, trusting in Him and in Him alone, being satisfied with Him and with Him alone;”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“Prayer and faith, the universal remedies against every want and every difficulty; and the nourishment of prayer and faith, God’s holy word, helped me over all the difficulties.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“My heart’s desire and prayer to God is, that all believers, who read this, may by these many answers to prayer be encouraged to pray, particularly as it regards the conversion of their friends and relations, their own state of heart, the state of the Church at large, and the success of the preaching of the gospel.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“the chief end for which the Institution was established is, that the Church of Christ at large might be benefited by seeing manifestly the hand of God stretched out on our behalf in the hour of need, in answer to prayer.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“Sept. 25. It is now half-past eleven. Nothing has come in as yet. How the Lord will help us through the day is not my care; for sure I am He will help. I am just going to meet with my fellow-labourers for prayer. Perhaps the Lord will again, at the time of the meeting, fill our mouths with praise, as He has done so many times. My soul waits on Him for deliverance! How truly precious to have such a Father as we have!”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“from one cause or another, were we to lean upon man, we should surely be confounded; but, in leaning upon the living God alone, We are BEYOND disappointment, and BEYOND being forsaken because of death, or want of means, or want of love, or because of the claims of other work. How precious to have learned in any measure to stand with God alone in the world, and yet to be happy, and to know that surely no good thing shall be withheld from us whilst we walk uprightly!”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings

“Having had more prayer than usual, I found that my intercourse with the saints at tea was with unction, and more than usually profitable.”
― George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings