Charles Kingsley Quotes

God would rather give up His son..than give up on us

I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

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.

Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?

God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.

For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we might see love and love again, saith St John in his first epistle.

I would like everyone to feel loved by the God who gave his son for us and showed us his boundless love. I want everyone to feel the joy of being Christian.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

God, as you tell me, was put to death by the very men He created. But my God still looks down on His children.

The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.

Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

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.

Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.

God always wants what's best for us, just as you want what's best for someone you really love. You put them before you, and God does that too. God puts us before His Son, who He sacrificed for our salvation. But the Son did it voluntarily because He has the love of the Father before us.

Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you.

But they all stood beneath the cross, enemies and believers, doubters and cowards, revilers and devoted followers. His prayer, in that hour, and his forgiveness, was meant for them all, and for all their sins. The mercy and love of God are at work even in the midst of his enemies. It is the same Jesus Christ, who of his grace calls us to follow him, and whose grace saves the murderer who mocks him on the cross in his last hour.

Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.

The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.

When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in.

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.

God says "I have given you this gift, and it is a real gift. I want you to love me freely, and I will do anything, anything up to giving up the most precious thing I could say I have, my son, to prove I love you. Please come back."

The willingness of God to sacrifice his Son to reconcile us to himself is a demonstration of his love for us.

The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon one for whom He has died.