Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another
...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The "work" of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ.
Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.
We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!
The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.
In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.
We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.
The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.