J. C. Ryle Quotes

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

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.

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.

If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.

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

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in 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 Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

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

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

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.

God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

So when you say who does Christ die for? He died for the church, okay. I don't think God's death on the cross through Christ was a failure, if you are saying that. I do not believe that anybody he intended to die for is failing in that area.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

Without the cross, there's only condemnation. If Jesus wasn't executed, there's no celebration.

There's no way to get around the fact that Jesus is the only way to Heaven, and He is so good that He exchanged His place in Heaven to come suffer on a cross for humanity and rose to set us free from eternal life in Hell.

I am one of the crucified dead.