Christ On The Cross Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.