“George Muller … when he said, ‘I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord.’ …
To be sure, Muller agrees with his contemporary and friend Charles Spurgeon …
‘Certainly the benefit of reading must come to the soul by the way of the understanding … The mind must have illumination before the affections can properly rise towards their divine object … There must be knowledge of God before there can be love to God: there must be a knowledge of divine things, as they are revealed, before there can be an enjoyment of them.’ …