George Muller on Faith and Giving

From The Autobiography of George Muller:

"A brother with small earnings may ask, "Should I also give? My earnings are already so small that my family can barely make ends meet."
     My reply is, "have you ever considered that the very reason that your earnings remain so small may be because you spend everything on yourself? If God gave you more, you would only increase your own comfort instead of looking to see who is sick or who has no work at all that you might help them."
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The child of God must be willing to be a channel through which God's abundant blessings flow. The channel is narrow and shallow at first, yet some waters of God's bounty can pass through. If we cheerfully yield ourselves to this purpose, the channel becomes wider and deeper, allowing more of the bounty of God to pass through. We cannot limit the extent to which God may use us as instruments in communicating blessing if we are willing to yield ourselves to him and are careful to give Him all the glory."
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"May 26, 1851. The Christian should never worry about tomorrow or give sparingly because of a possible future need. Only the present moment is ours to serve the Lord, and tomorrow may never come."
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"The natural mind is prone to reason when we ought to believe, to be at work when we ought to be quiet, or to go our own way when we ought to steadily walk in God's ways. [ ... ] But each time we work a deliverance of our own, we find it more difficult to trust in God. At last we give way entirely to our natural reasoning, and unbelief prevails."
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