Quotes about Redemption
Thus the sum and substance of all doctrine is this, that we are not justified by any works, but that faith in Christ saves.
— Martin Luther
We aren't condemning good works. People first have to be made ready to do good works by being born anew. Only
— Martin Luther
What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?
— Martin Luther
Dominus et magister n? Jesus Chrs? dicendo, Penitentiam agite etc, omn? vitam fidelium penitentiam esse voluit. (Our Lord and teacher, Jesus Christ, in saying, "repent," wanted the entire life life of a believer to be repentance.)
— Martin Luther
If He gave Himself into death for our sins, then undoubtedly He is not a tormentor. He is not One who will cast down the troubled, but One who will raise up the fallen and bring propitiation and consolation to the terrified.
— Martin Luther
If we fail to hold that the Person who was crucified was both God and man, we are eternally damned and lost. We must have a Savior who is more than a saint or an angel. If He were not superior to these, we would get no help from Him. But if He is God, then the treasure is so heavy that it not only outweighs and cancels sin and death but also gives eternal life. No mere human could acquire eternal life for us or overcome the devil and death.
— Martin Luther
There is nothing so good and nothing so evil but that it shall work together for good to me, if only I believe. Yes, since faith alone suffices for salvation, I need nothing except faith exercising the power and dominion of its own liberty.
— Martin Luther
But there is no other mediator than the Lord Christ, who is the Son of God.
— Martin Luther
Without Christ there is no access to the Father, but futile rambling; no truth, but hypocrisy; no life, but eternal death.
— Martin Luther
The Jews supposed that the Messiah would be the sovereign of the world. In reality, He was to become the Savior of the world.
— Martin Luther
Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.
— Martin Luther
God is our Father and our God, but only in Christ Jesus.
— Martin Luther