Christ On The Cross Quotes:

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

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Easter, Christ On The Cross, Answers

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

topic: Prayer, Christ On The Cross, Temptation

The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.

- John Stott

source: John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, InterVarsity Press

topic: Sight, Christ On The Cross, Sin, Penitence

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

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

topic: Men, Christ On The Cross, Knowing, Meaningfulness

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

- Michael Jackson

topic: Forgiveness, Biblical, Christ On The Cross

The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.

- Billy Graham

source: Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Christ On The Cross, Grace, Compassionate Love, Merciful God

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

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

topic: Self, Christ On The Cross, God's Plan

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

topic: Love, Easter, World, Kids Easter, Risen

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

topic: God, Dedication, Two, God Is There, Thy Will Be Done

Faith is not the price that buys God's blessing, it is the hand that receives His blessing. The price was paid for us by Jesus Christ on the cross

- Joyce Meyer

source: Joyce Meyer (1995). “If Not for the Grace of God: Learning to Live Independently from Struggles and Frustrations”

topic: Jesus, Blessing, Hands, Christ On The Cross

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

topic: Christian, Easter, Pain, Christ On The Cross

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

topic: Easter, Done, Christianity, Christ On The Cross

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

- William Penn

source: No Cross, No Crown (1669) See Proverbs 212

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Overcoming Challenges, Palm Sunday

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

topic: Roots, Blood, Done, Christ On The Cross

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

topic: Friday, Son, Rebel, Holy Days, Crucifixion

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

topic: Life, God, Christian, Praying To God, Jesus Inspirational

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

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

topic: Christian, Jesus, Easter, Crucifixion, Crucifixion Of Christ

There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Easter, Answers, Causes, Forsaken, Crucifixion

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

topic: Friday, Men, Two, Holy Days, Good Friday

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

- Philip Yancey

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

topic: Easter, Pain, Suffering, Calvary, Christ On The Cross

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

topic: Jesus, Sacrifice, Men, Christ On The Cross

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

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

topic: Jesus, Taken, Track, Christ On The Cross

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

- Andrew Murray

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

topic: Jesus, Easter, Life Changing, Christian Easter, Christs Resurrection

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

topic: Easter, Believe, Son, Christ On The Cross

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Christian, Philosophical, Religion, Good Friday, Antichrist

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

- Michael Jackson

topic: Christ On The Cross

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

topic: Jesus, Men, Soul, Christ On The Cross

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

topic: Friday, Destiny, Race, Holy Days, Christ On The Cross

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Christian, Friday, Atheist, Christ On The Cross

Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned.

- A. C. Dixon

topic: Sight, Eden, Perfect, Christ On The Cross

I have come to see the real clash of the ages, involve wars and various historical circumstances, as being a clash of satan' s versus God's plan for man to learn and experience true liberty, by first receiving forgiveness of sins through the work of Christ on the cross, and then walking in the 'newness of life.

- Richard S. Wheeler

topic: Real, War, Men, Newness Of Life, Forgiveness Of Sins

O Priest! Take care lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: He saved others, himself he cannot save!

- Norbert of Xanten

topic: Faith, Inspiration, Care, Christ On The Cross

Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.

- Francis Schaeffer

topic: God, Jesus, Reality, Finished Work, Christ On The Cross

I understood my personal responsibility in putting Christ on the cross and the implications of how the Gospel impacts every area of life. It informs my identity as a human, as an artist, and as a citizen of this country.

- Sho Baraka

source: Source: www.christianpost.com

topic: Country, Responsibility, Artist, Christ On The Cross, Implications