Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].
Martin LutherNo 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 LutherWho waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
Martin LutherFirst I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
Martin Luther