Top 44 Prayer Martin Luther Quotes
#1. I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
Martin Luther
#2. Before you pray, check to see whether you believe or doubt that you will be heard. If you are doubting or uncertain, or if you are merely trying a prayer to see what happens, your prayer won't be worth anything.
Martin Luther
#4. 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.
Martin Luther
#5. To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Martin Luther
#7. Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.
Martin Luther
#8. Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.
Martin Luther
#9. I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
Martin Luther
#10. In human affairs, we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged, we keep in order, what has gone amiss we improve or change, what we cannot change and improve we bear, overcoming all trouble and sustaining all by prayer. Against such forces there is no help but prayer.
Martin Luther
#11. Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.
Martin Luther
#12. If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.
Martin Luther
#13. As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
Martin Luther
#15. We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.
Martin Luther
#16. To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Martin Luther
#17. It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
Martin Luther
#18. The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.
Martin Luther
#20. Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for revolution. People don't know this because they go to too many prayer breakfasts on his birthday.
Bill Ayers
#21. Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
Martin Luther
#22. The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
Martin Luther
#23. What shall we do with ... the Jews? ... I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings ... are to be taken from them.
Martin Luther
#24. All who call on God in true faith ... will certainly be heard.
Martin Luther
#25. Martin Luther expressed God's expectation of prayer this way: "As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray."[2]
Donald S. Whitney
#26. What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles ... The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.
Martin Luther
#28. The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
Martin Luther
#29. None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
Martin Luther
#30. 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.
Martin Luther
#31. It is important when we have a need to go to God in prayer. I know, whenever I have prayed earnestly, that I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes." - Martin Luther, "What a Great Gift We Have in Prayer"9
Richard J. Foster
#32. Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that helps and never fails.
Martin Luther
#33. 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.
Martin Luther
#34. PRAYER O God, our merciful Father in heaven, fill our hearts with patience under the cross, strengthen our faith, and so govern us that we give offense to none, neither in word nor deed. Grant us also this day all that we need for body and soul. Amen.
Martin Luther
#36. If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.
Martin Luther
#37. Contemporaries relate that hearing Martin Luther pray was "an experience in theology". They said the reformer began praying with such humility that he could be pitied, only to proceed with such boldness before God that the human hearer would fear for him.
A.W. Tozer
#38. I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.
Martin Luther
#40. Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.
Martin Luther
#41. The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.
Martin Luther
#42. Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Martin Luther
#43. 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.
Martin Luther
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