Martin Luther Quotes

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

It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.

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.

I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

The existing governments of the world are the consequence of disobedience to the commands of God. But Christ came to bring men back to obedience by a new and living way.

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He came on earth to do. It was the crowning proof that the ransom He paid for sinners was accepted, the atonement for sin accomplished, the head of him who had the power of death bruised, and the victory won.

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

A Christian is one who is invited... to join in the feast, to the joy of being saved, to the joy of being redeemed, to the joy of sharing life with Christ. This is a joy! You are called to a party!

In the sacrifice which Jesus Christ makes of Himself on the Cross for His bride, the Church... there is entirely revealed that plan which God has imprinted on the humanity of man and woman since their creation.

To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved by his own sufferings. To know the Cross is to know that we are saved by the sufferings of Christ; more, it is to know the love of Christ Who underwent suffering and death in order to save us. It is, then, to know Christ.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.

Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are an unsaved person. The Savior will sanctify His people, renew them, give them a hatred of sin, and a love of holiness. The grace that does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not IN their sins, but FROM their sins. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.

Trust in the power of Christ’s Cross! Receive his reconciling grace and share it!

The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.

The cross of Jesus Christ represents the intersection of God's love and God's holiness.

Christ exhausted the cup of God’s wrath. For all who trust in Him there is nothing more in the cup. It is empty.