Martin Luther Quotes About Sinners

Quotes about: Sinners

• When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.

  Martin Luther

  Comfort, Satan, Christ

• 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 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

• If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Littles, Savior

• Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.

  Martin Luther

  Attractive, Sinner

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.75, Fortress Press

• 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

• God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.

  Martin Luther

  Doe, Attractive, Sinner

• You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Feelings, Lord

• 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

• When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Have Faith, Action

• Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Sin, Christ

• Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.

  Martin Luther

  Debt, Wealth, Foolish

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Lectures on Galatians”

• For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they should remain as they were before they received grace and mercy; but he condones and forgives both sin and death for the sake of Christ, who has fulfilled the whole Law in order thereby to make the heart sweet and through the Holy Spirit to kindle and move the heart to begin to love from day to day more and more.

  Martin Luther

  Sweet, Moving, Heart

• God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.

  Martin Luther

  Hostile, Unbelievers, Sinner

  Martin Luther (2009). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.93, The Floating Press

• Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, World, Sin

• God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong (sin boldly), but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, ... are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Justice, Heaven

  "Let Your Sins Be Strong". A Letter From Luther to Melanchthon, Letter no. 99, AUgust 1, 1521.

• 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

• Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou art not a child of your merciful Father; for otherwise thou wouldst be also as he, merciful. It is certainly true that we cannot show as great mercy to our neighbor, as God has to us; but it is the true work of the devil that we do the very opposite of mercy, which is a sure sign that there is not a grain of mercy in us.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Brother, Children

• In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.

  Martin Luther

  Struggle, Promise, May

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