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.

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

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

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.

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

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

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.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

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.

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 cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.

In the sacrifice which Jesus Christ makes of Himself on the Cross for His bride, the Church... there is entirely revealed that plan which God has imprinted on the humanity of man and woman since their creation.

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

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

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.

There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.

To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.

Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love which underwent its worst confict there. Yes, the Cross is the tree that sweetens the waters. 'Love never faileth.

Look at the cross and you will know what one soul means to Jesus.

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