None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
Martin LutherFor God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they should remain as they were before they received grace and mercy; but he condones and forgives both sin and death for the sake of Christ, who has fulfilled the whole Law in order thereby to make the heart sweet and through the Holy Spirit to kindle and move the heart to begin to love from day to day more and more.
Martin LutherWhatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
Martin Luther