Martin Luther Quotes

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.

The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.

If you believe you will not be free from sin until you die,you have just made death your savior instead of Jesus.

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

Jesus died for our sins, not our sexuality.

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

The only reason Christ submitted himself to the horrendous experience of bearing the sins of the entire world is because his death provided the only way for reconciliation with God.

Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror; yea, thou wilt, through the good providence of God, live to see thy lust dead at thy feet.

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

If the final decision for the salvation of fallen sinners were left in the hands of fallen sinners, we would despair all hope that anyone would be saved.

For he who has died has been freed from sin...14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.

Not only has the debt (of our sins) been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.

Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.