Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
MARTIN LUTHEREvery man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
More Martin Luther Quotes
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Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.
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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
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This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
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Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.
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I have so much to do today, I’ll need to spend another hour on my knees.
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I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.
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When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.
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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
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Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.
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Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.
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The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
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For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need.
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The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.
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A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
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