Martin Luther Quotes

He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.

Martin Luther

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• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Christ

• Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Christ
  • Pure Bread

• My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Different
  • America
  • Jesus

• I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of Christ and not by Christ's 'words and example.'

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Christ
  • Blood
  • Sinner

• This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Christ
  • Prison

• We are not doomed to an ultimate conflict with no hope of resolution. The message of the Scripture is one of victory - full, final and ultimate victory. It is not our doom that is certain, but Satan's. His head has been crushed by the heel of Christ, who is the Alpha and Omega.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Hope
  • Victory
  • Christ

• We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Christ
  • Face
  • Mask

• The Light of the Christ within now wipes out all fear, doubt, anger and resentment. God's love pours through me, an irresistible magnetic current. I see only perfection and draw to me my own.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • God
  • Fear
  • Light

• Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Christ

• Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Together

• Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• Life is rarely easy, but, with Christ our King, it is always good.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Life
  • Good
  • King

• Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Live
  • Christ
  • Copies

• The men who have most fully illustrated Christ in their character and have most powerfully affected the world for Him have been men who spend so much time with God as to make it a notable feature in their lives.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• I may be a nut, but I'm fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Good
  • May
  • Jesus

• Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Christian
  • Christ
  • Christian Inspirational

• 'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Christ
  • Perception
  • Shift

• Christ always calls us to life and constantly to greater joy, but rarely does He call us to comfort.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Christ

• That there are three persons, yet but one God, that do bear witness to the divinity of Christ, and of the plenteous redemption wrought by him

  

  William Burkitt
  • Christ
  • Bears
  • Witness

• We gotta stop smoking, stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Stop Smoking

• My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Different
  • America
  • Jesus

• When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Right
  • Self
  • Rays

• He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Christ
  • Receives
  • Good Writing