Martin Luther:

I never learned to pray as I ought until I had been scourged by the devil.

— Martin Luther Early Modern

Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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c. 1530s

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12187-i-never-learned-to-pray-as-i-ought-until

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