Mark Twain Quotes

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

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Christ is dead and his teachings moribund.

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

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

Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacrifice of the Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice on Calvary.

I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time. He taught His gospel and was tried. He suffered and was crucified and resurrected on the third day. He, like His Father, has a body of flesh and bone. He made His Atonement. Of Him I bear witness. Of Him I am a witness.

There is no way of salvation except through the cross of Christ.

There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

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

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

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.

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.

It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.

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.

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

The Resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.

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.

I think that he was a prophet. I've had a difficult time coming to terms with Jesus Christ as the Son of God.