Martin Luther Quotes

We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

God took the record of all your sins-all your sexual failures-that made you a debtor to wrath, and instead of holding them up in front of your face and using them as the warrant to send you to hell, he put them in the palm of his Son’s hand and nailed them to the cross.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

There are some who believe that because they have made mistakes, they can no longer fully partake of the blessings of the gospel. How little they understand the purposes of the Lord. One of the great blessings of living the gospel is that it refines us and helps us learn from our mistakes. We "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God," yet the Atonement of Jesus Christ has the power to make us whole when we repent.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.