God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
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!
Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.
A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.
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.
I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.
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.
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.
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