Martin Luther Quotes About Salvation

Quotes about: Salvation

• Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Lying, Believe

• 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.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Blood, Beginnings And Ends

• God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a man cannot be thoroughly humbled till he realizes that his salvation is utterly beyond his own powers, counsels, efforts, will and works, and depends absolutely on the will, counsel, pleasure and work of Another -- God alone.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Effort, Grace

• 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.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Men, Grace

• As long as a man is persuaded that he can make even the smallest contribution to his salvation, he remains self-confident and does not utterly despair of himself, and so is not humbled before God. Such a man plans out for himself a position, an occasion, a work, which shall bring him final salvation, but which will not.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Self, Long

• If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Men, Scary

• Whilst a man is persuaded that he has it in his power to contribute anything, be it ever so little, to his salvation, he remains in carnal self-confidence; he is not a self-despairer, and therefore is not duly humbled before God, he believes he may lend a helping hand in his salvation, but on the contrary, whoever is truly convinced that the whole work depends singly on the will of God, such a person renounces his own will and strength; he waits and prays for the operation of God, nor waits and prays in vain

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Self Confidence, Men

• I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

  Martin Luther

  Hands, Choices, Wish

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.350, Fortress Press

• The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation

  Martin Luther

  Recognition, Sin, Salvation

• God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Justice

• The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Spiritual, Sacrifice

• For who in fact seeks the salvation of souls through indulgences, and not instead money for his coffers? This is evident from the way indulgences are preached . For the commissioners and preachers do nothing but extol indulgences and incite.

  Martin Luther

  Soul, Way, Facts

• Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.

  Martin Luther

  Teacher, Mean, People

  Martin Luther (1987). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.356, Kregel Publications

• [It is] essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart of the subject

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Heart, Doe

  Martin Luther (2018). “The Bondage of the Will”, p.20, Ambassador International

• Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by who escape death.

  Martin Luther

  Lord, Salvation

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