Doug Stanhope Quotes

Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

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

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.

Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly. "What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts. "I was just seeing if you were listening.

There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.

The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up.

The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.

If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.

I am so profoundly grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ, for a testimony of the Atonement of the Savior. I believe in it with all my heart, and I live for it, and I bear witness of it this day. Of all of the events of human history, none other approaches the Atonement of the Savior in its meaning and in its results. God be thanked for the gift of His precious Son, to whom we all owe thanks for His sacrifice in our behalf.

Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven.

Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours.

The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman cross. They nailed Him on it, and God, in His majesty and mystery, turned it into an altar. The Lamb who was dying in the mystery and wonder of God was turned into the Priest who offered Himself. No one else was a worthy offering.

Look at the cross and you will know what one soul means to Jesus.

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

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

Jesus never called a human being a sinner.

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

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

Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people.