J. C. Ryle Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!

Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.

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 world's one and only remedy is the cross.

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.

I am one of the crucified dead.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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.

The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.

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.