Martin Luther Quotes About Prayer
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I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.
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We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.
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The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
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It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
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All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
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Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
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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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It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that." Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.
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I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.
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I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
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Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.
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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
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To pray well is the better half of study.
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As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
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God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.
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When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
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God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.
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Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.
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When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatred and I can say with warmth and vehemence: 'Holy be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done!' And the hotter I grow the more ardent do my prayers become.
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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
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In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone.
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No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.
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Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.
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I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.
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The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.
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Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
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Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
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Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
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If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!
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Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent.
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