Crucifixion Quotes

• It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Nice, Crucifixion Of Christ, Cost

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we have nailed Him there and crucified Him; but the Love in His eternal heart could not be extinguished. He willed to give us the very life we slew; to give us the very Food we destroyed; to nourish us with the very Bread we buried, and the very Blood we poured forth. He made our very crime into a happy fault; He turned a Crucifixion into a Redemption; a Consecration into a Communion; a death into Life Everlasting

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Beautiful, Heart, Mean

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• You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Crowns, Want, Thorns

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• Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

  Loretta Lynn

  Easter, Crucifixion Of Christ, Perfect

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.12, Vintage

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• It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Jesus, Facts

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2015

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• Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Prayer, Mean

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• It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Citizens, Impossible, Murder

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

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Easter, Christ On The Cross, Answers

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

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• Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

  Peter Kreeft

  Reason, Incarnation

  Peter Kreeft (2001). “Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church”

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• Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you.

  Mother Teresa

  Pain, Opportunity, Self

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• Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.

  Stephen Charnock

  Happiness, Death, Christian

  "Christ Our Passover".

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• I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Suffering, Doe, Wonder

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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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• I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1966). “Sermons on the Gospel of John”

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• "Gospel preachers nowadays preach the gospel of the Crucifixion, the Apostles preached the gospel of the Resurrection as well. The Crucifixion loses its meaning without the Resurrection. Without the Resurrection the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr; with the Resurrection it is the atoning death the Son of God. It shows that death to be of sufficient value to cover our sins, for it was the sacrifice of the Son of God."

  R. A. Torrey

  Son, Sacrifice, Noble

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• Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Friday, Jesus, Memories

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “Collected Works”

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• Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Pain, Shadow

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.141, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him an all-absorbing interest, an overwhelming interference. No matter what he may desire to do, there is but one thing he can do; that is, move on toward the place of crucifixion.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Moving, Destiny, Men

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• No one can out-sin the cross of Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Sin, Christ, Crosses

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• Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

  Martin Luther

  Friday, Spiritual, Jesus

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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 significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.

  Miroslav Volf

  Doe, Social Behavior, Done

  "The Clumsy Embrace". Interview with Kevin D. Miller, www.christianitytoday.com. October 26, 1998.

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• The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must be conformed; in other words, they must be conformed to his death (Phil 3.10, Rom 6.4) The Christian life is a life of crucifixion (Gal 2.19) In baptism the form of Christ's death is impressed upon his own. They are dead to the flesh and to sin, they are dead to the world, and the world is dead to them (Gal 6.14). Anybody living in the strength of Christ's baptism lives in the strength of Christ's death.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Baptism, World

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