‘It was only after the consideration of many months and after much self-examination as to my motives, and after much earnest prayer, that I came to the conclusion to write this work. I have not taken one single step in the Lord’s service, concerning which I have prayed so much. My great dislike to increasing the number of religious books would, in itself, have been sufficient to have kept me forever from it, had I not cherished the hope of being instrumental in this way to lead some of my brethren to value the Holy Scriptures more, and to judge by the standard of the word of God the principles on which they act.’
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George Müller (1805-1898) was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. The theology that guided George Müller’s work was shaped by an experience in his middle twenties when he ‘came to prize the Bible alone as his standard of judgement’.
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