Love Quote by George Muller

Muller’s line reads less like a pious slogan than a postmortem on leadership: the mistakes weren’t primarily tactical, they were spiritual failures disguised as practicality. He builds a three-part diagnostic - integrity (“honest of heart”), posture (“patiently wait”), and authority (“Word of God” over “counsel of my fellow-men”) - and treats each as a load-bearing beam. Remove one, and the whole structure collapses.

The intent is corrective, almost procedural: here is the internal checklist that separates wise action from religious busyness. Muller isn’t romanticizing intuition; he’s warning against a familiar clerical trap: confusing motion for obedience. “Patiently wait” is the hardest verb in the sentence, because it makes delay a discipline. It also subtly reframes anxiety as a theological problem. If you can’t wait, you’re not just stressed - you’re unmoored.

The subtext sharpens when he contrasts “fellow-men” with “the Word of God.” This isn’t anti-community so much as anti-approval. Muller, famous for founding orphanages and relying on prayer rather than fundraising appeals, lived in a 19th-century Protestant world where respectability and donor confidence could become silent masters. He admits that deference to human counsel can look like humility while functioning as fear: fear of being thought extreme, naive, or irresponsible.

Context matters: Muller’s ministry depended on decisions that could not be fully insured by common sense. The quote justifies a method that outsiders might call reckless. He calls it accountability to a higher instruction - and he’s blunt about the cost of forgetting it.