Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
Martin LutherRead
Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.'
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of faith and the centrality of Jesus Christ in Martin Luther's life.
Martin Luther highlights the transformative power of faith in one's life, asserting that his identity is not defined by historical figures or personal achievements but is rooted in his relationship with Jesus Christ. This statement reflects a deep spiritual conviction that prioritizes divine presence over human influence, illustrating the essence of his theological beliefs and personal commitment to Christianity.
In practice
In a sermon on faith and personal identity.
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
Now if I believe in God's Son and remember that He became man, all creatures will appear a hundred times more beautiful to me than before. Then I will properly appreciate the sun, the moon, the stars, trees, apples, as I reflect that he is Lord over all things. ...God writes the Gospel, not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness and wellbeing, he may be enabled to labour, and to acquire and preserve property, for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfiling the law of Christ.
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.
Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.
Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine.
Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.
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