Quotes about Grace
God is both willing and able to help. He gives health, happiness, and salvation. You can depend on this.
— Martin Luther
Not only are all men without exception declared to be guilty in God's sight, they are slaves to the sin that makes them guilty.
— Martin Luther
To know Christ is to know goodness and discipline.
— Martin Luther
The Gospel teaches from what source you receive the power to fulfill the Law.
— Martin Luther
Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.
— Martin Luther
The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with and all-holy God.
— Martin Luther
O God, our merciful Father, by Your Holy Law do You work in us the true knowledge of our sin, that our heart may be penitent, and our soul humble before You. Blot out our iniquities with the blood of Your Son, cleanse our souls from the dark spots with which we have soiled them, and comfort us with the assurance of Your grace. Build Your Church with us and our children, that Your name may be glorified by many generations. Amen.
— Martin Luther
He is a God to us and dispenses everything bountifully also when everything is most hopeless.
— Martin Luther
He has come that they might reject their works; but this is a thing they cannot suffer, and they reject Him.
— Martin Luther
Begin with Christ. He came down to earth, lived among men, suffered, was crucified, and then He died, standing clearly before us, so that our hearts and eyes may fasten upon Him. Thus we shall be kept from climbing into heaven in a curious and futile search after the nature of God.
— Martin Luther
In everything we do or experience we should have a happy heart and know that for Christ's sake we are in grace and that everything we do pleases God, even the fact that out of the needs of the body we eat and drink and do our work.
— Martin Luther
The gospel also is not a law book that contains many good teachings, as has been thought in the past. It doesn't tell us to do good works to become virtuous but announces God's grace to us, given freely and without our merit. It tells us how Christ stood as our representative. He paid for our sins and wiped them out so that we can become faithful and blessed through his work.
— Martin Luther