Christ On The Cross Quotes

• Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

  John Stott

  Christian, Easter, Done

  John Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (2009). “The Cross”, p.15, InterVarsity Press

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• God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

  Billy Graham

  Love, Christian, Easter

  Twitter post from Apr 05, 2015

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• There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, God, Dedication

  "The Great Divorce". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1945.

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• Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

  John Piper

  Christian, Easter, Pain

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• 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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• It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.57, Ignatius Press

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• The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.

  Watchman Nee

  Blood, Roots, Done

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.10, CLC Publications

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• No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  No Cross, No Crown (1669) See Proverbs 212

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• Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

  Philip Yancey

  Easter, Pain, Suffering

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.111, Harper Collins

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• Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Men

  Matt Chandler, Josh Patterson, Eric Geiger (2012). “Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church”, p.28, B&H Publishing Group

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• Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Easter, Answers, Contradicting

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.88, Open Road Media

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• I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

  Martin Luther

  Life, God, Christian

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• Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them," to tempt Him withal, He did not stand and look upon them, viewing their glory, and pondering their empire.... but instantly, without stay, He cries, "Get thee hence, Satan." Meet thy temptation in its entrance with thoughts of faith concerning Christ on the cross; this will make it sink before thee. Entertain no parley, no dispute with it, if thou wouldst not enter into it.

  John Owen

  Prayer, Temptation, Devil

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• What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

  John Piper

  World, Boast, Foolishness

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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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• All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Self, God's Plan, Crosses

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1922). “Satan: His Personality, Power and Overthrow”

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• Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men's sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.

  Watchman Nee

  Easter, Believe, Son

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• A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.

  Andrew Murray

  Jesus, Easter, Life Changing

  Andrew Murray (2013). “Jesus Himself”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• In Jesus Christ on the Cross, there is refuge; there is safety; there is shelter; and all the power of sin upon our track cannot reach us when we have taken shelter under the Cross that atones for our sins.

  A. C. Dixon

  Jesus, Taken, Track

  a.c.dixon (1962). “the glories of the cross”

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• Exalt the Cross! God has hung the destiny of the race upon it. Other things we may do in the realm of ethics, and on the lines of philanthropic reforms; but our main duty converges into setting that one glorious beacon of salvation, Calvary's Cross, before the gaze of every immortal soul.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Friday, Destiny, Race

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• Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross of Jesus Christ has put more heroism in the souls of men than any other event in human history.

  John G. Lake

  Jesus, Men, Soul

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

  Michael Jackson

  Forgiveness, Biblical, Crucifixion Of Christ

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• The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Friday, Atheist

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Philosophical, Good Friday

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

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• Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes. He balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.

  Vaclav Havel

  Men, Knowing, Joy

  "Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy" by Richard L. Stanger. Christian Century article, pp.368-370, www.religion-online.org. April 11, 1990.

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