Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

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

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

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

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

So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty to Him in the days of His darkness, for the time when we shall enter into His triumph in the days of His light.

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

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

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.

I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.

Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.

Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him.

Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

I am one of the crucified dead.

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

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

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Jesus is the inspiration for anyone to go the distance.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.