Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
MARTIN LUTHERFor what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need.
More Martin Luther Quotes
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If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.
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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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Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
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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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Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
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Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.
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They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
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God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
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The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.
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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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I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!
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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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I’ll trust in God’s unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.
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No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
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