Martin Luther Quotes

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

Christ has no velvet crosses.

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!

Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.

... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

Christ's own 'God-forsaken-ness' on the cross showed me where God is present where God had been present in those nights of deaths in the fire storms in Hamburg and where God would be present in my future whatever may come.

God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that is, our transgressions. It happened at the cross, and it occurs in the lives of followers of Christ every day.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

Suffering turns men towards their creator.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.

We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.

Jesus Christ was the most perfect being to ever walk this planet and he was persecuted and nailed to the cross … so please don’t be surprised when we get a little static.

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.