George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God Quotes

“A HUMAN life, filled with the presence and power of God, is one of God's choicest gifts to His church and to the world.”
― Arthur Tappan Pierson, George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God

“Every new spring of inward joy demands a channel for outflow,”
― Arthur Tappan Pierson, George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God

“where a state church exists, the ministry of the Gospel is apt to be treated as a human profession rather than as a divine vocation, and so the standards of fitness often sink to the low secular level, and the main object in view becomes the so-called "living," which is, alas, too frequently independent of holy living.”
― Arthur Tappan Pierson, George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God

“George Müller proved for himself and for all others who will receive his witness that, to those who are willing to take God at His word and to yield self to His will, He is "the same yesterday and to-day and forever":”
― Arthur Tappan Pierson, George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God

“George Müller believed, and because he believed, prayed; and praying, expected; and expecting, received.”
― Arthur Tappan Pierson, George Muller of Bristol: His Life of Prayer and Faith

“The most intimate knowledge of God is possible on one condition—that we search His Holy Scriptures, prayerfully and habitually, and translate what we there find, into obedience.”


― Arthur Tappan Pierson, George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God”
― Arthur Tappan Pierson, George Muller of Bristol 1805-1898

“God is often moved to delay that we may be led to pray, and even the answers to prayer are deferred that the natural and carnal spirit may be kept in check and self-will may bow before the will of God.”
― Arthur Tappan Pierson, George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God

“THE workman of God needs to wait on Him to know the work he is to do and the sphere where he is to serve Him.”
― Arthur Tappan Pierson, George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God

“kings. The most intimate knowledge of God is possible on one condition—that we search his holy Scriptures, prayerfully and habitually, and translate what we there find, into obedience.”
― Arthur T. Pierson, George Muller of Bristol: His Life of Prayer and Faith

“        I believe God answers prayer,         Answers always, everywhere;         I may cast my anxious care,         Burdens I could never bear,         On the God who heareth prayer.         Never need my soul despair         Since He bids me boldly dare         To the secret place repair,         There to prove He answers prayer.”
― Arthur Tappan Pierson, George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God

“When therefore the believer uses the word of God as the guide to determine both the spirit and the dialect of his prayer, he is inverting the process of divine revelation and using the channel of God's approach to him as the channel of his approach to God.”
― Arthur Tappan Pierson, George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God

“Only by using faith are we kept from practically losing it, and, on the contrary, to use faith is to lose the unbelief that hinders God's mighty acts.”
― Arthur Tappan Pierson, George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God

“Whenever Satan acts as a hinderer (1 Thess. ii. 18) the obstacles which he puts in our way need not dismay us; God permits them to delay or deter us for the time, only as a test of our patience and faith, and the satanic hinderer will be met by a divine Helper who will sweep away all his obstacles, as with the breath of His mouth.”
― Arthur Tappan Pierson, George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God

“The inspired Scriptures form the vehicle of the Spirit in communicating to us the knowledge of the will of God.”
― Arthur Tappan Pierson, George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God

“That God may be glorified in so furnishing the means as to show that it is not a vain thing to trust in him;”
― Arthur T. Pierson, George Muller of Bristol: His Life of Prayer and Faith