"Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow."

"Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts."

"Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch."

"Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures."

"To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law."

"Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not."

"Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death, thinking what are they in comparison of the sufferings of my blessed Savior Christ Jesus."

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

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