“To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in persevering prayer. It means to be so watchful at all times that we can notice when we become slothful in prayer and that we go to the Spirit of prayer to have this remedied. In this struggle, too, the decisive factor is the Spirit of prayer.”
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Ole Kristian O. Hallesby was a Lutheran neo-orthodox pietist who taught at the Free Faculty of Theology from 1909 to 1952.
He was an outspoken opponent of the Nazi occupation of Norway and was for a time detained at Grini concentration camp.
Hallesby wrote 67 books, mostly on theology and ethics, but is known for devotional writings.