It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last at night. Guard yourself carefully against those false, deluding ideas which tell you, “Wait a little while. I will pray in an hour; first I must attend to this or that.” Such thoughts get you away from prayer into other affairs which so hold your attention and involve you that nothing comes of prayer that day.
– Martin Luther –
from A Simple Way to Pray
I live as though Christ died yesterday, rose again today, and is coming tomorrow.
– Martin Luther –
Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.
– Martin Luther –
There are only two days on my calendar…today and the day of judgment.
– Martin Luther –
Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.
– Martin Luther –
Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.
– Martin Luther –
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
– Martin Luther –
If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the Word of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Him. Where the battle rages there the loyalty of the soldier is proved and to be steady on all the battle front besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.
– Martin Luther –