The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel Quotes

“For the doctrine of the Gospel that man is made righteous in the sight of God and saved by nothing but the pure grace of God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, is, as everybody knows, the most important doctrine, the marrow and substance of Christian teaching. Wherever this doctrine is not proclaimed, there is no Christ, no Gospel, no salvation; there men perish, and for such people it has been in vain that the Son of God has come into the world.”
― C.F.W. Walther, The Proper Distinction between Law and Gospel

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― C.F.W. Walther, The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel

“Now, of all doctrines the foremost and most important is the doctrine of justification. However, immediately following upon it, as second in importance, is this, how Law and Gospel are to be divided.”
― C.F.W. Walther, The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel

“In God, holiness and righteousness are the characteristics of the one Sublime, Sovereign Being, to whom no one can issue a command or lay down a law. In”
― C.F.W. Walther, The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel

“Sin is lawlessness and constitutes the doer thereof a rebel against the righteous rule of His sovereign Lord.”
― C.F.W. Walther, The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel

“God has willed, is now willing, and will never cease willing, that man shall not sin. Sin”
― C.F.W. Walther, The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel