Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
Martin LutherRead
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
Interpretation
Procrastination based on waiting for perfect conditions hinders success.
This quote by Martin Luther emphasizes that waiting for ideal circumstances can lead to missed opportunities and stagnation. Success often requires taking risks and acting despite uncertainties, as the perfect moment may never arrive.
In practice
A motivational speaker might use this quote to encourage students to take action in their studies.
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.
If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.
You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.
You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.
Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
Everything stinks till itβs finished.
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