Challenging Quotes For Joining Christ On His Mission (Part 2)
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These quotes are from the God motivated Evangelist George Muller. May they serves to encourage, challenge and maybe even provoke you to living a life fully devoted to our Lord Jesus Christ. George Muller was such a man!
“George Müller (born Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller, 27 September 1805 – 10 March 1898) was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. He was one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Later during the split his group was labelled as the Open Brethren.
He cared for 10,024 orphans during his lifetime,[1][2] and provided educational opportunities for the orphans to the point that he was even accused by some of raising the poor above their natural station in British life. He established 117 schools which offered Christian education to more than 120,000.” Wikipedia
“A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.”
“Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.”
“There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing.”
“Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls”
“Where faith begins, anxiety ends; where anxiety begins, faith end.”
“The greater the trial, the sweeter the victory.”
“Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward.”
“God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.”
“I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him”
“God judges what we give by what we keep.”
“If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.”
“Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.”
“I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me. I have recorded my petitions that when God has answered them, His name will be glorified.”
“When the day of recompense comes, our only regret will be that we have done so little for Him, not that we have done too much.”
“When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own”
