Martin Luther Quotes

We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.

Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.

Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.

You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

I preach salvation by grace through faith alone. I preach for the repentance of sin.

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.

If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

A man is saved only by faith ... only by faith.

I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.

Theres some inherently unique characteristics of Christianity, the chief of which is that Christianity teaches that we are saved by what Christ has done for us, instead of we are saved by what we do for God.

Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.

The cross alone is our theology.

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.

Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith.

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.