Billy Graham Quotes

The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

Christ died for me and you, and we embrace that or we don't.

Jesus is not only the Son of God, but He is God Himself. Having all power in His hands, He laid down His life for people who deserved God's justice, not His mercy.

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.

Christ died for the truth.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

Was it not enough to crucify Christ, Must you crucify all redeemers?

In order to mount to the Cross, the summit of sacrifice, and to God, the summit of immateriality, Christ passed through all the stages which the man who struggles passes through.

Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse.

Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.

The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

There is no way of salvation except through the cross of Christ.

To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved by his own sufferings. To know the Cross is to know that we are saved by the sufferings of Christ; more, it is to know the love of Christ Who underwent suffering and death in order to save us. It is, then, to know Christ.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.