Faith Quotes

"Jesus Christ could die instead of man because He was sinless. As a man without sin, He was not under the judgment and condemnation of God. If Jesus had also committed sin and broken God's law, then He Himself would have needed to die according to God's righteousness judgment. He would not have been able to die for man's sin. But because He was without sin, He could die on behalf of sinful man. This is called 'vicarious death' for man."

- Henry Hon

"[The cross] is a way of life that we live out. It is a practice that involves risk. It is a story that, if truly told, courts danger but moves also into hopeful solidarity, the solidarity of those who are moved by the pain of God in the midst of this world, or by the pain of the world in the midst of God."

- Vitor Westhelle

"The Lord was exposed with naked body: He was not deemed worthy even of covering; and, in order that He might not be seen, the luminaries turned away, and the day became darkened, because they slew God, who hung naked on a tree."

- Melitos of Sardis

"The cross wasn't just an act of lofty compassion, it is also a deliberate model for social justice."

- Andrena Sawyer

"The power of prayer, the power of His Word and the power of the Cross will carry you through the storms even when at times you feel powerless."

- Gift Gugu Mona

"We must deny ourselves as Christ asks of us, for when our world is filled with plenty, our eyes fail to see the humbleness of the cross."

- Allene vanOirschot

"I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified (1 Cor. 2:2)."

- Paul

"We never, therefore, move on from the cross of Christ, only to a more profound understanding of the cross (David Prior)."

- David Prior

"The cross stands for all that was accomplished through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the Son of God. It focuses on His substitutionary death at Calvary but includes everything that gave meaning to that act."

"The cross ultimately points not to the greatness of our worth but to the greatness of our sin… The cross sets us free from the misguided self-love to passionately love the One who redeemed us."

"In the cross we find a perfect reconciling of God’s blazing holiness, holy justice, incomprehensible wisdom, omnipotent power and unfathomable love."

"On that cross, Christ endured the holocaust of God’s wrath against our sin and exhausted it."

"So the Cross does not merely tell us that God forgives, it tells us that that is God’s way of making forgiveness possible. It is the way in which we understand how God forgives. The Cross is the vindication of God. The Cross is the vindication of the character of God."

"No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the cross."

"We don’t want to be personally or institutionally offensive, but we cannot buffer the offense of the cross."

"Here is why all the central truths of the gospel focus on the cross: It reveals how heinous our sin is. It shows the intensity of God’s wrath against sin. It reveals the great love of God in paying such a high price for redemption."

"Don’t ever think for one split second that Jesus came into the world to offer a kingdom to Israel without a cross and that somehow when the Jews rejected Him as King, He had to go and die on the cross. He never offered a kingdom without a cross. He was the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world."

"God unleashed the full extent of His fury on Jesus Christ. As Isaiah put it in Isaiah 13:9, “Wrath with fierce anger.” Hell came there. God is the power behind the punishment in hell. God, who is the punisher of all the souls in eternal hell, shows up in the darkness of Calvary to punish His Son."

"Infinite wrath moved by infinite righteousness releases infinite punishment on the infinite Son who can absorb an eternal hell for all who will ever believe in three hours. It is here that He bears in His own body our sins."

"This is a stunning thing to think about. All the people who will spend forever in hell will spend forever there because they will never be able to pay for their sins. Yet Jesus, in three hours, would pay in full for all the sins of all the people who would ever believe."

"Nothing else is of equal importance. The message of the cross is the Christian’s hope, confidence, and assurance. Heaven will be spent marveling at the work of Christ, the God-Man who suffered in the place of us sinners."

"The cross is not a nebulous, indefinable symbol of self-giving love; on the contrary, the cross is the monumental display of how God can be just and still pardon guilty sinners."

"The wounds of Christ were the greatest outlets of His glory that ever were. The divine glory shone more out of His wounds than out of all His life before."

"At the cross we catch a glimpse of the enormity of our sins’ offense to God. Here we learn about hell as Jesus, God’s beloved Son, takes the retributive punishment that we deserved, even separation from God, to deliver us."

"The supreme example of controlling, directing influence which God exerts upon the wicked is the Cross of Christ with all its attendant circumstances. From all eternity God had predestined every detail of that event of all events."

"At the all-important pivot of human history, the worst sin ever committed served to show the greatest glory of Christ and obtain the sin-conquering gift of God’s grace. God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil."

"Some Christians misunderstand God’s plan for His kingdom. They want to establish it their own way rather than waiting for God to do it His way. God’s way of establishing the kingdom is primarily through the preaching of the cross."

"Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book."

"If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us."

"This is no mere question of controversy; this is not one of those points on which men may agree to differ, and feel that differences will not shut them out of heaven. A man must be right on this subject, or he is lost forever."