Richard Salter Storrs Quotes

Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?

'Who Is This Man?' is about the impact of Jesus on human history. Most people - including most Christians - simply have no idea of the extent to which we live in a Jesus-impacted world.

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

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

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

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.

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

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

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

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.

The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy.

Whether or not you believe that after three days of being dead and entombed, Jesus got up and walked out of his own accord, what you cannot argue about is the fervent belief of the followers that this happened.

During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.

Jesus was born a Jew, and he died a Jew. It never occurred to him to establish a new religion. He never crossed himself: he had no reason to. He never set one foot in a church. He went to synagogue.

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.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

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

If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideous and repulsive as a cross stained with the blood of Jesus.An unopened grave would never have opened heaven.

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.

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 to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge.