Quotes about Salvation
We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.
- Martin Luther
The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold of it perfectly and to believe it with all our heart.
- Martin Luther
We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair.
- Martin Luther
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
Do not let your thoughts take flight, flutter, and climb. Simply cleave and cling to Christ. It is imperative to remain solely with the Person of Christ. If you have that, you have all; but if you lose that, you have lost all.
- Martin Luther
They mistakenly assume that their good works can save them. Just make sure that you are born again. Because if you are not, your good works are worthless.
- Martin Luther
Before you can cry to God and seek him God must come to you and must have found you
- Martin Luther
Paul makes it clear enough that it takes more than an Abrahamic pedigree to be a child of God. To be a child of God requires faith in Christ.
- Martin Luther
The Gospel is to aggrandize Christ and the mercy of God.
- Martin Luther
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
Either Christ must live and the Law perish, or the Law remains and Christ must perish; Christ and the Law cannot dwell side by side in the conscience. It is either grace or law. To muddle the two is to eliminate the Gospel of Christ entirely.
- 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