Ann Voskamp Quotes

God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.

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

I am one of the crucified dead.

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

Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.

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

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

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 only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.

The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

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

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

In the sacrifice which Jesus Christ makes of Himself on the Cross for His bride, the Church... there is entirely revealed that plan which God has imprinted on the humanity of man and woman since their creation.

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.

Jesus’ Cross shows the full force of evil, but also the full power of God’s mercy.

... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

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.

The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.

Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.