Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
MARTIN LUTHERThe less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
More Martin Luther Quotes
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Spare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
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He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
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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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Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love receiving from above faith and giving out below love.
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A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
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Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word.
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We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
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Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.
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The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
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There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
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God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.
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Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
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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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Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
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A man cannot do good before he is made good.
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