God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.
Martin Luther
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