50+ Good Friday Inspirational Quotes to Reflect on Love and Sacrifice

"No matter what the storm clouds bring, you can face your pain with courage and hope. For two thousand years ago-six hours, one Friday-Christ firmly planted in bedrock three solid anchor points that we can all cling to. For the heart scarred with futility, that Friday holds purpose. For the life blackened with failure, that Friday holds forgiveness. And for the soul looking into the tunnel of death, that Friday holds deliverance."

- Max Lucado

"On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you."

- Max Lucado

"Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday."

- Fulton J. Sheen

"Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation."

- Hans urs von Balthasar

"Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter."

- Marianne Williamson

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

- William Penn

"When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes."

- Coretta Scott King

"People referred to the symbolism of the empty Cross more than once on its journey. It would seem obviously to point to our faith in Jesus’ resurrection. It’s not quite so simple though. The Cross is bare, but in and of itself the empty Cross does not point directly to the Resurrection. It says only that the body of Jesus was removed from the Cross. If a crucifix is a symbol of Good Friday, then it is the image of the empty tomb that speaks more directly of Easter and resurrection. The empty Cross is a symbol of Holy Saturday. It’s an indicator of the reality of Jesus’ death, of His sharing in our mortal coil. At the same time, the empty Cross is an implicit sign of impending resurrection, and it tells us that the Cross is not only a symbol of hatred, violence and inhumanity: it says that the Cross is about something more. The empty Cross also tells us not to jump too quickly to resurrection, as if the Resurrection were a trump card that somehow absolves us from suffering. The Resurrection is not a divine ‘get-out-of-jail free’ card that immunises people from pain, suffering or death. To jump too quickly to the Resurrection runs the risk of trivialising people’s pain and seemingly mapping out a way through suffering that reduces the reality of having to live in pain and endure it at times. For people grieving, introducing the message of the Resurrection too quickly cheapens or nullifies their sense of loss. The empty Cross reminds us that we cannot avoid suffering and death. At the same time, the empty Cross tells us that, because of Jesus’ death, the meaning of pain, suffering and our own death has changed, that these are not all-crushing or definitive. The empty Cross says that the way through to resurrection must always break in from without as something new, that it cannot be taken hold of in advance of suffering or seized as a panacea to pain. In other words, the empty Cross is a sign of hope. It tells us that the new life of God surprises us, comes at a moment we cannot expect, and reminds us that experiences of pain, grief and dying are suffused with the presence of Christ, the One Who was crucified and is now risen."

- Chris Ryan MGL

"What is good about Good Friday? Why isn't it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad, because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal."

- Randy Alcorn

"I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be held there, God is able to bring healing to us and new possibilities to our lives. That is, of course, what Good Friday and Easter are all about."

- N. T. Wright

"It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good."

- Ravi Zacharias

"Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near."

- John Piper

"Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained."

- Richard John Neuhaus

"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."

- Martin Luther

"Good Friday was when the Good was crucified but then on Easter the Good arose back.... So wait to realize that be it God or be it human the good never perishes it's rises above."

- Amit Abraham

"We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world."

- Barbara Johnson

"Now, who can call 'Good Friday' good? - A term too oft misunderstood - You, who were bought by the blood of His cross, You can call 'Good Friday' good."

- Johnny Hart

"The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Upon that cross of Jesus Mine eye at times can see The very dying form of One Who suffered there for me; And from my smitten heart with tears Two wonders I confess The wonders of redeeming love and my unworthiness."

- Elizabeth C. Clephane

"The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours."

- Robert Brault

"The miracle of Good Friday is that there was no miracle. Legions of angels stood - with swords sheathed - watching as the Son took our place."

- Mark Hart

"From death came life, from sorrow came joy; this is the hope of Easter."

- Aloo Denish Obiero

"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."

- Blaise Pascal

"How great is the love of God! He loved me long before I knew His name. He wooed me, chased me, enthralled me, and captured my heart. He didn’t prove His love at a candlelight dinner. There were no long-stemmed roses, but there were thorns. Yes, there were thorns."

- Katherine J. Walden

"We focus on Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, but we forget to pause in the stillness of the days between. Find time today to be present in that place of waiting. There is treasure to be found in the sacred peace that comes as you breathe in that place of quiet surrender. Don’t rush through the space called “Between.”"

- Katherine J. Walden

"The sorrow of Good Friday's sacrifice to the joy of Easter's dawn of victory is a timeless testament to life's journey from despair to hope, from darkness to light, from trial to triumph."

- Aloo Denish Obiero

"Gethsemane is where He died; the cross is only the evidence."

- Leonard Ravenhill

"The beauty of the cross and our crucified Lord cannot be easily fathomed by human mind or by barely reading scriptures in bits, but by careful reading of entire scripture in the spirit which will in turn engulf one with wisdom n love."

- Henrietta Newton Martin

"Good Friday was the worst Friday until Sunday."

- Mike Donehey

"All the great groups that stood about the Cross represent in one way or another the great historical truth of the time; that the world could not save itself. Man could do no more. Rome and Jerusalem and Athens and everything else were going down like a sea turned into a slow cataract. Externally indeed the ancient world was still at its strongest; it is always at that moment that the inmost weakness begins. But in order to understand that weakness we must repeat what has been said more than once; that it was not the weakness of a thing originally weak. It was emphatically the strength of the world that was turned to weakness and the wisdom of the world that was turned to folly. In this story of Good Friday it is the best things in the world that are at their worst. That is what really shows us the world at its worst. It was, for instance, the priests of a true monotheism and the soldiers of an international civilisation. Rome, the legend, founded upon fallen Troy and triumphant over fallen Carthage, had stood for a heroism which was the nearest that any pagan ever came to chivalry. Rome had defended the household gods and the human decencies against the ogres of Africa and the hermaphrodite monstrosities of Greece. But in the lightning flash of this incident, we see great Rome, the imperial republic, going downward under her Lucretian doom. Scepticism has eaten away even the confident sanity of the conquerors of the world. He who is enthroned to say what is justice can only ask: ‘What is truth?’ So in that drama which decided the whole fate of antiquity, one of the central figures is fixed in what seems the reverse of his true role. Rome was almost another name for responsibility. Yet he stands for ever as a sort of rocking statue of the irresponsible. Man could do no more. Even the practical had become the impracticable. Standing between the pillars of his own judgement-seat, a Roman had washed his hands of the world."

- G.K. Chesterton

"If he did not suffer, if he did not bleed, if he did not feel every bit of the pain of execution as he gulped for air, then he would not be the Christ we know. He was fulfilling his epochal role in history on that cross; he was not playacting, not a god pretending to die. He was the Word made flesh, who was, however strangely and incomprehensibly, full of grace and truth."

- Jon Meacham

"We stand now at the cross, in the moments of Jesus’s greatest pain. May we bear in mind the central emotional truth of Good Friday: that the Christian tradition grew from the most wrenching, mysterious, and mystifying sacrifice imaginable—that of a father’s offering of his child."

- Jon Meacham

"The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood-- Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good."

- T.S. Eliot

"Crucified Love lives with us today and till the end of times as He promised.Amen.The beauty of the cross and our crucified Lord cannot be fathomed by human mind or by barely reading scriptures in bits, but by careful reading of entire scripture in the spirit which will in turn engulf one with wisdom and love."

- Henrietta Newton Martin

"May your Good Friday be blessed with the presents of Jesus on your lips, and his never ending grace in your heart. May his grace surround your family, and fill your lives with peace, health and happiness."

- Ron Baratono

"The Gospel reveals a real k truth that if we don't see Jesus' death as our only hope for salvation, we are among the lost. But thank God, the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost, and He went to the cross to do so. The depth of His sacrifice is beyond our comprehension, but it's what makes our salvation possible. He had to die to save us from the darkness of sin and death. May we grasp the necessity of His death and find eternal life in Him."

- Shaila Touchton

"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

"If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power."

- E.A. Bucchianeri

"As I was about to complain that this 2020 is not the year I have ordered. Then I remembered Romans 5:3-11 3 We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. 4 And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. 5 And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love…"

- De philosopher DJ Kyos

"Jesus Christ Our Lord who died for us so that we may live,He Resurrected that we may have life eternal.Can we ever be unfaithful to that sacrifice and fail to declare Him alone as our Lord? Something to ponder upon!"

- Henrietta Newton Martin-Legal Professional & Author

"Jesus Christ Our Lord, died for us so that we may live. He Resurrected ,so that we may have life eternal.Can we ever be unfaithful to that sacrifice and fail to declare Him alone as our Lord? Something to ponder upon!"

- Henrietta Newton Martin - Legal Counsel & Author

"Let us pray also for the pagans, that almighty God will dispel the blindness of their hearts, so that they may renounce their false gods, and be converted to the living and true God, and His only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ, our God and Lord. V. Let us pray. Let us kneel. R. Arise. Almighty and eternal God, you desire not the death of sinners but that they should live. Mercifully hear our prayers and lead those who are in darkness from the worship of false gods to union with your holy Church for the glory of your holy name. Through our Lord. (solemn collects of Good Friday)"

- The Maryknoll Fathers

"Crucified Love' lives with us today. He was , He is and He will always be."

- Henrietta Newton Martin, Author - The Greatest of All Romances- Your Potter’s Call!

"…As Sunday smiled and walked with me I pondered the timeless, cursed tree. Such weight of sin upon mere wood; Only this king could make Friday Good. (Excerpt from A Friend of Friday)"

- T William Watts

"Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries."

- Warren W. Wiersbe

"GOD'S ACT OF LOVE IS THE PERFECT AND THE DEEPEST, HE COMPLETELY OFFERED HIS BLOOD TO SOAK YOUR SIN, AMEN"

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"He set an example by washing their feet, commanding them to do unto one another the very same feat."

- Chiradeep Patra

"BLAME YOURSELF AND TAKE THE GLORY, HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY"

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"Good Friday is a time to reflect and renew. Wishing you a peaceful and thoughtful day."

"As we remember His sacrifice, may we also remember the strength He gives us in times of need. Have a reflective Good Friday."

"May your Good Friday be filled with blessings and peace. Take a moment to reflect on all that we are grateful for."

"Good Friday invites us to reflect on the greatness of His sacrifice. Let us pause and remember the power of love that is beyond measure."

"As we reflect on Jesus' ultimate act of love, may we open our hearts to forgiveness, healing, and peace."

"The message of Good Friday is one of redemption. Let’s take a moment to reflect on how His sacrifice touches our lives."

"Good Friday teaches us about the power of humility, love, and sacrifice. May we carry His lessons in our hearts today and always."

"This Good Friday, let’s reflect on His unending love and the opportunity for renewal it brings."

"May the peace of Christ fill your heart and soul this Good Friday. Wishing you a day of rest and reflection."

"On this Good Friday, may you find peace in the sacrifice He made for us and joy in the hope He brings."

"Good Friday brings a reminder of His love and the peace it offers. May you be blessed with a peaceful heart."

"Wishing you peace, grace, and love on this sacred day. May you find solace in His sacrifice."

"As we reflect on His great sacrifice, may you experience peace that transcends all understanding this Good Friday."

"Wishing you peace and blessings on this Good Friday. May it be a time of reflection and renewal for you."

"On this holy day, may your heart be filled with the love and grace of God. Have a blessed Good Friday."