Martin Luther Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

  Martin Luther

  Funny, Drinking, Sleep

• Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Lambs, Want

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

• In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Kings, Sacrifice

• The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Hands, Grace

• Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Might, Sin

• Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.

  Martin Luther

  Sports, Drinking, Beer

• And I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on. He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone. No, never alone. He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Fighting, Voice

  "Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool". Delivered at Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, August 27, 1967.

• He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

  Martin Luther

  Sin, Christ, Made

• May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Believe, Church

  Martin Luther “Day by Day We Magnify You: Daily Readings for the Entire Year”, Augsburg Books

• Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you

  Martin Luther

  Hate, People, Listening

• This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.

  Martin Luther

  Grace, Riches, Mystery

• The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Law, Preaching The Gospel

• The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

  Martin Luther

  Self Confidence, Law, Ideas

• 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

• To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Grace, Peace With God

• Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.

  Martin Luther

  Forever, Grace, Overcoming

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.8, Lulu.com

• Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

  Martin Luther

  Math, Medicine, People

• This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace unto sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange, our sins are no longer ours but Christ's; and the righteousness of Christ is not Christ's but ours. He has emptied himself of his righteousness that he might clothe us in it, and fill us with it: and he has taken our evils upon himself that he might deliver us from them.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Taken, Evil

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

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Sin, Christ

  Letter to Melanchthon, 1521, in 'Epistolae' (Jena, 1556) vol. 1, folio 345 verso

• Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.

  Martin Luther

  Spring, Long, Doe

• Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.

  Martin Luther

  Father, Wrath, World

• Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

  Martin Luther

  Strange, Sin, Saved

• Yes, would to God that I could persuade the rich and the mighty that they would permit the whole Bible to be painted on houses, on the inside and the outside, so that all can see it. That would be a Christian work... If it is not a sin but good to have the image of Christ in my heart, why should it be a sin to have it in my eyes? This is especially true since the heart is more important than the eyes, and should be less stained by sin because it is the true abode and dwelling place of God.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Art, Eye

• This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from eternal death. It is His kingdom and His ministry, to preach the Gospel to the poor; that is His purpose. For to the great and holy He cannot come. They do not wish to be counted sinners, and therefore do not need His Gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Suffering

  Martin Luther “Day by Day We Magnify You: Daily Readings for the Entire Year”, Augsburg Books

• Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'

  Martin Luther

  Father, Son, Men

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