Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“God wants to give us more than we ask for, not just fulfill our weak prayers. Joseph” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“PRAYER O God, our merciful Father in heaven, fill our hearts with patience under the cross, strengthen our faith, and so govern… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“All teachers of Scripture conclude that the essence of prayer is simply the lifting up of the heart to God. But if… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“At these words I was utterly stupefied and terror-stricken. I thought to myself, “With what tongue shall I address such majesty, seeing… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Whilst a man is persuaded that he has it in his power to contribute anything, be it ever so little, to his… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public,… — Martin Luther Copy Share
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure. — Martin Luther Copy Share
He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved,… — Martin Luther Copy Share
“God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.” — Martin Luther Copy Share
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful. — Martin Luther Copy Share
Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be… — Martin Luther Copy Share
“Our faith in Christ does not free us from works but from false opinions concerning works, that is, from the foolish presumption that justification… — Martin Luther Copy Share
The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of… — Martin Luther Copy Share
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we… — Martin Luther Copy Share
“For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. Romans 3:28” — Martin Luther Copy Share
Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul… — Martin Luther Copy Share
It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators. — Martin Luther Copy Share
