“The crucifixion of Jesus is the
greatest theme, not only of the
Bible but of the human race.”
~ Gerald Coats
“The Cross is the surest, truest
and deepest window on the very
heart and character of the Living
and loving God.”
~ N.T. Wright,
First Century Historian
“We see that it is not the task of
Christianity to provide easy
answers to every question, but to
make us progressively aware of a
mystery. God is not so much the
object of our knowledge as the
cause of our wonder.”
~ Cardinal Hume
“Who would ever have thought that
a Galilean carpenter would come to
be regarded by millions as the
human being most like God ever to
have walked this planet?”
~ Angela Tilby,
BBC Documentary writer
“The passion of Jesus Christ is
the judgment of God, in which
the Judge himself was the
judged.”
~ Karl Barth
“The wrath of God is the love
of God in the form in which
the man who has turned away
from God experiences it.”
~ Emil Brunner
“His death on the cross was a
great example to the world.”
~ Gandhi
“Everything of God gets
expressed in Jesus, so you can
see and hear him clearly.”
~ Eugene Peterson
“I could never myself believe in
God, if it were not for the
cross…. In the real world of pain,
how could one worship a God
who was immune to it?
~ John Stott
“The cross, in fact, is the redeeming
turning-point of history. It is the
goal of Israel’s strange covenant
story. As a result, it is God’s way of
healing his world.”
~ N.T. Wright,
First Century Historian
“The greatest disease in the
world is the disease of being
unloved.”
~ Princess Dianna, 1995
“At the heart of our universe is
one who not only loves us but
has made his love known in the
most unforgettable way.”
~ Derek Tidball, Theologian
“God’s own heart suffered
on the cross.”
~ Karl Barth
“The death of Christ is the
central point of history.”
~ Stephen Neill
“It is Calvary which makes trust in
God possible, not because Calvary
is a demonstration of God’s love –
though it is that – but because it is a
proof of God’s integrity. God said
that sin would bring death. In Christ
hanging on the cross, we see God
keeping his word.”
~ Dr. Richard S. Taylor
“The cross used to stand for Jesus,
and more precisely, the suffering of
Jesus. Now it stands for an
institution that most often doesn’t
really stand for anything other than
the advancement of it’s own
institutionality.”
~ Michael Card
“It would be most unseemly to
feign a cool detachment as we
contemplate Christ’s Cross.
For… we are involved. Our sins
put him there.”
~ John Stott
“When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And poor contempt on all my pride.
~ Isaac Watts
“The nail that pierces the hand of
Jesus goes through to the hand
of God. The spear thrust into the
side of Jesus goes through into
God’s.”
~ George Butterick
“He bore the judgment we
deserve in order to bring us the
forgiveness we do not deserve.”
~ John Stott
“To have received the love of
God in our own lives and then to
refuse to share it with others is to
turn God’s free-flowing grace into
a stagnant pool.”
~ Derek Tidball, Theologian
“Amazing love! How can it be
That thou, my God,
should’st die for me?”
~ Charles Wesley
“But God proves his love for us
in that while we still were sinners
Christ died for us.”
~ Romans 5:8, NRSV
“I am the door; if anyone enters through
Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in
and out, and find pasture.”
~ John 10:9, NASB
“The greatest disease in the
world is the disease of being
unloved.”
~ Princess Dianna, 1995
“For God so loved the world, that
He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him
should not perish, but have
eternal life.”
~ John 3:16, NASB
“Beneath all my seemingly strong selfconfidence there remained the question; ‘If all
those who shower me with so much attention
could see me and know me in my innermost
serf, would they still love me?’ That agonizing
question, rooted in my inner shadow, kept
persecuting me and made me run away from
the very place where that quite voice calling
me the Beloved could be heard.”
~ Henri Nouwen, Life Of The Beloved
Gk., “hilasterion“
=
Lit., “place of atonement”
“Atonement”
=
“At – one – ment”
“To have received the love of
God in our own lives and then to
refuse to share it with others is to
turn God’s free-flowing grace into
a stagnant pool.”
~ Derek Tidball, Theologian
“I have been crucified with Christ and I
no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The
life I live in the body, I live by faith in the
Son of God, who loved me and gave
himself for me. I do not set aside the
grace of God, for if righteousness could
be gained through the law, Christ died
for nothing!”
~ Galatians 2:20-21, NIV
“One is not justified by faith by
believing in justification by faith.
One is justified by faith by
believing in Jesus.”
~ N.T. Wright
“I have been crucified with Christ and I
no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The
life I live in the body, I live by faith in the
Son of God, who loved me and gave
himself for me. I do not set aside the
grace of God, for if righteousness could
be gained through the law, Christ died
for nothing!”
~ Galatians 2:20-21, NIV
“But God proves his love for us
in that while we still were sinners
Christ died for us.”
~ Romans 5:8, NRSV
“Therefore the law was our disciplinarian
until Christ came, so that we might be
justified by faith.”
~ Galatians 3:24, NRSV
"For even the Son of Man did not
come to be served, but to serve, and
to give His life a ransom for many."
~ Mark 10:45, NASB
“He disarmed the rulers and
authorities and made a public
example of them, triumphing
over them in it.”
~ Colossians 2:15, NRSV