Franklin Graham Quotes

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.

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

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings.

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

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

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against 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.

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

Christ exhausted the cup of God’s wrath. For all who trust in Him there is nothing more in the cup. It is empty.

There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.

The cross alone is our theology.

There's no way to get around the fact that Jesus is the only way to Heaven, and He is so good that He exchanged His place in Heaven to come suffer on a cross for humanity and rose to set us free from eternal life in Hell.

Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and settled the accounts.

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.

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.

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.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son.

I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.

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

Some unifying principles bind all Christians: that God became a man and died for our sins, and that without that sacrifice, all of us would be doomed.

The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.