Martin Luther Quotes

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

Martin Luther

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• God's Reluctance

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• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Experience
  • Failure
  • End

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Great
  • School
  • Home

• I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • Problem
  • Short

• There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Marketing
  • Advertising
  • Many

• I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Trying
  • Family

• And we’ll work to strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and do more to encourage fatherhood - because what makes you a man isn’t the ability to conceive a child; it’s having the courage to raise one.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Marriage
  • Courage

• Words are everything and don't you forget it, ever.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Words

• I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket shop when the kids have gone to bed.

  

  Andrea McLean
  • Kids
  • Shopping

• I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Why

• I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.

  

  Andrew Greeley

• A little showbiz never hurt anyone.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Hurt

• So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.

  

  Jeff Gordon
  • Life
  • Driving

• I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropologist by training.

  

  Jan Chipchase
  • Training
  • Design

• All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.

  

  Shakira
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Hair

• My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'

  

  Jade Jagger
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • She

• The purpose of God's blessing is to enable you to be a great channel of blessing to others. If you have nothing, there is nothing you can do for anyone else; if you have a little, you can only help a little; but if you have plenty, there is a whole lot you can do. When you are blessed, you have a mighty foundation from which to impact others. You are blessed to be a blessing.

  

  Brian Houston
  • Channel
  • God's blessing

• Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).

  

  Larry Wall
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Help

• I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Writing
  • Shows
  • Categories

• Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God's people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • People
  • World
  • God

• None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Prayer

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

  

  Martin Luther
  • Prayer
  • Willingness
  • God's Reluctance