Martin Luther Christ Quotations

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

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

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offense was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!

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

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.

Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, 'in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.'

Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.

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

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.'

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.

Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.

Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.

Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.

..Christ and his word can hardly be recognized because of the great vermin of human ordinances. However, let this suffice for the time being on their lies against doctrine or faith.

I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.

If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.

It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garmentBut even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us.

The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.

Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.

Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.