Quotes About The Cross

“Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.”

-Philip Yancey

 

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

 

“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.”

-W. H. Auden

 

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

-Andrew Murray, Jesus Himself

 

“Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.”

-Teresa of Ávila

 

“All of heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, hell afraid of it, while men are the only ones to ignore its meaning.”

-Oswald Chambers

 

"Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice."

-Philip Yancey

 

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

-Philip Yancey

 

"God's terrible insistence on human freedom is so absolute that he granted us the power to live as though He did not exist, to spit in His face, to crucify Him."

-Philip Yancey

 

“Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.”

-C. J. Mahaney

 

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

-John R. W. Stott

 

“It cost God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost him crucifixion.”

-C. S. Lewis

 

“The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness, it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.”

-R. C. Sproul

 

“The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross, all opinions must come at last for judgment.”

-A. W. Tozer

 

 “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”

-1 Corinthians 1:18