Quotes About Cross

When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see God's awesome faithfulness. Nothing – not even the instinct to spare His own Son – will turn him back from keeping His word.

The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.

The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.

We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.

The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.

The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'

In Christ alone, and His payment of the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, we find reconciliation to God and ultimate meaning and purpose.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.

God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.

The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.

The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.

Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.

God can be found only in suffering and the cross.

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.

Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.

Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.

When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.

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.

We can approach God's throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us.

All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.