George MacDonaldIf God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.
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If God were only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction. The words of Martin Luther in 1521 when he said, “If God were only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction” are more than just a quote. They are more than the words of a great religious leader. They are the words of a person who was learning to understand what it meant to be Christian.
Luther knew that what was important was not whether or not God heard people’s prayers. A person’s relationship with God did not depend on how often or how long they prayed for things that were good for them. Luther did not think that it was wrong for God to allow things to happen that he did not want to happen.
Source: Weighed And Wanting
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