Athanasius of Alexandria Quotes

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.

The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.

The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11-12; Isa. 53:3-5; Matt. 8:17.) The anguished Jesus not only pled with the Father that the hour and cup might pass from Him, but with this relevant citation. 'And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me.' (Mark 14:35-36.)

Jesus Christ was the most perfect being to ever walk this planet and he was persecuted and nailed to the cross … so please don’t be surprised when we get a little static.

I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time. He taught His gospel and was tried. He suffered and was crucified and resurrected on the third day. He, like His Father, has a body of flesh and bone. He made His Atonement. Of Him I bear witness. Of Him I am a witness.

We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!

Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross!

At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.

If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.

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.

Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.

Jesus poured out his soul in life before he poured it out unto death

Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.

Without the cross, there's only condemnation. If Jesus wasn't executed, there's no celebration.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.