Quotes about Sin
The human seed, this mass from which I was formed, is totally corrupt with faults and sins. The material itself is faulty. The clay, so to speak, out of which this vessel began to be formed is damnable. What more do you want? This is how I am; this is how all men are. Our very conception, the very growth of the foetus in the womb, is sin, even before we are born and begin to be human beings.
- Martin Luther
it is completely contrary to the nature of sin to confess that one has sinned.
- Martin Luther
For it is not possible to make the mercy of God large and good, unless a person first makes his miseries large and evil or recognizes them to be such. To make God's mercy great is not, as is commonly supposed, to think that God considers sins as small or that He does not punish them.
- Martin Luther
The white devil of spiritual sin is far more dangerous than the black devil of carnal sin because the wiser, the better men are without Christ, the more they are likely to ignore and oppose the Gospel. With the words, "that he
- Martin Luther
The white devil of spiritual sin is far more dangerous than the black devil of carnal sin because the wiser, the better men are without Christ, the more they are likely to ignore and oppose the Gospel. With
- Martin Luther
If we want to talk about natural powers on the basis of this psalm and on the basis of the Holy Spirit's manner of speaking, then we should call "natural" the fact that we are in sin and death and that we desire, understand, and long for things that are corrupt and evil.
- Martin Luther
Through envy, greed, and councilors young, Jerusalem, Troy, and Rome were hung.
- Martin Luther
If I examine myself I find enough unholiness to shock me. But when I look at Christ in me I find that I am altogether holy.
- Martin Luther
By His resurrection Christ won the victory over law, sin, flesh, world, devil, death, hell, and every evil. And this His victory He donated unto us. These many tyrants and enemies of ours may accuse and frighten us, but they dare not condemn us, for Christ, whom God the Father has raised from the dead is our righteousness and our victory.
- Martin Luther
The sin and wrath which Moses arouses through his ministry that Prophet cancels through righteousness and grace by His ministry.
- Martin Luther
These two words, grace and peace, include all that belong to Christianity. Grace releases sin, and peace makes the conscience quiet. The
- Martin Luther
True freedom is being free from sin. How
- Martin Luther