Good Friday Quotes - Page 2

• By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!

  Frederic Farrar

  Friday, Son, Holy Days

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• If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Friday, Jesus, Looks

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• We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion.

  Phillips Brooks

  Friday, Light, Darkness

  "Holy-days and Holidays: A Treasury of Historical Material, Sermons in Full and in Brief, Suggestive Thoughts, and Poetry, Relating to Holy Days and Holidays". Book by Edward Mark Deems (p. 150), 1902.

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• 2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

  Douglas Adams

  Friday, Nice, Men

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• On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide.....Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice...but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself.

  George MacDonald

  Friday, Jesus, Son

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• In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Philosophical, Christ On The Cross

  The Antichrist aphorism 39 (1888) (translation by Walter Kaufmann)

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• The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Friday, Men, Holy Days

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• I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.

  Michael Jackson

  Forgiveness, Biblical, Christ On The Cross

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• The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.

  Robert Anderson

  Friday, Men, Expression

  Robert Anderson (2007). “The Silence of God”, p.73, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The way of the cross is the way of suffering. Christians are called to die, not kill, in order to show the world how they are loved by Christ.

  John Piper

  Friday, Christian, Order

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• The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.

  John Stott

  God, Christian, Friday

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.159, InterVarsity Press

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• The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

  John Stott

  Friday, Jesus, Crosses

  John Stott, Christopher J. H. Wright (2015). “Christian Mission in the Modern World”, p.72, InterVarsity Press

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• I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is only one person in the world for me at that moment.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Believe, Live In The Moment

  "Mother Teresa: Essential Writings".

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• We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion. There have been victories all over the world, but wherever we look for the victor we expect to find him with his heel upon the neck of the vanquished. The wonder of Good Friday is that the victor lies vanquished by the vanquished one. We have to look deeper into the very heart and essence of things before we can see how real the victory is that thus hides itself under the guise of defeat.

  Phillips Brooks

  Friday, Real, Lying

  "Holy-days and Holidays: A Treasury of Historical Material, Sermons in Full and in Brief, Suggestive Thoughts, and Poetry, Relating to Holy Days and Holidays". Book by Edward Mark Deems (p. 150), 1902.

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• We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.

  James Gibbons

  Friday, Would Be, Crosses

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• Apart from the cross, condemnation is normal. Without Jesus, we all deserve to be condemned and punished for sin. But here's the good news: 'There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus'.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Friday, Jesus, News

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• Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again.

  Pope Francis

  Path, Week, Confession

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• At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

  Martin Luther

  Friday, Devil, Lasts

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.

  Bill Murray

  Friday, Easter, Atheist

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• Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.

  Isaac Watts

  Friday, Sacrifice, Blood

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• We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.

  Gerry Adams

  Friday, Happy Friday, Agreement

  "North Irish hardliners make poll gains", www.cnn.com. June 08, 2001.

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• Bearing sham and scoffing rude, in my place condemned He stood - Sealed my pardon with His blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior!

  Philip Bliss

  Friday, Blood, Rude

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• Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

  W. H. Auden

  Christmas, Friday, Easter

  "Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry". Book by Anthony Hecht, p. 135, 2005.

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• So the main question is not, Which humans brought about the death of Jesus but, What did the death of Jesus bring about for humans - including Jews and Muslims and Buddhists and Hindus and nonreligious secularists - and all people everywhere?When it is all said and done, the most crucial question is: Why? Why did Christ suffer and die? Not why in the sense of cause, but why in the sense of purpose?

  John Piper

  Friday, Buddhist, Jesus

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• Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.

  Muriel Lester

  Friday, Sight, Evil

  Muriel Lester (1947). “It So Happened”

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