Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Without Christ there is no access to the Father, but futile rambling; no truth, but hypocrisy; no life, but eternal death.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.' — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Christ and his word can hardly be recognized because of the great vermin of human ordinances. However, let this suffice for the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Begin with Christ. He came down to earth, lived among men, suffered, was crucified, and then He died, standing clearly before us,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
One is not righteous who does much, but the one who, without work, believes much in Christ. The law says, 'Do this,'… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace unto sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange, our sins are no longer… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Yes, would to God that I could persuade the rich and the mighty that they would permit the whole Bible to be… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all -… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Love is not only pure joy, and delight, but also great and deep heaviness of heart and sorrow. But love too is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong (sin boldly), but… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Our faith in Christ does not free us from works but from false opinions concerning works, that is, from the foolish presumption that justification… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. Romans 3:28” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
