Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Martin Luther
Some Similar Quotes
  1. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way! - Alexander Pope

  2. Writing is prayer. - Franz Kafka

  3. I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. - Martin Luther

  4. I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway. - Nicholas Sparks

  5. Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen. - Thomas Aquinas

More Quotes By Martin Luther
  1. We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

  2. My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

  3. Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

  4. Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the...

  5. Be a sinner and sin boldly,  but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

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