 In any trial, in any bitter situation, you are not alone, you are not helpless, you are not a victim. You have a tree, a cross, shown to you by the Sovereign God of Calvary. Whatever the trial or temptation, it is not more than you can bear. It is bearable. It can be handled. You can know as Joseph knew, "You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive" (Genesis 50:20). Author: Kay Arthur |
| It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride. Author: John Piper |
| Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us. Author: John Stott |
| The Gospel is good news of mercy to the undeserving. The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales. Author: John Stott |
| The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice - and so the pain - of the cross. Author: John Stott |
| The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified. So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a eucharistic community, ceaselessly offering to God through Christ the sacrifice of our praise and thanksgiving. The Christian life is an unending festival. And the festival we keep, now that our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed for us, is a joyful celebration of his sacrifice, together with a spiritual feasting upon it. Author: John Stott |
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| To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us. Author: John Henry Newman |
At the heart of the story stands the cross of Christ where evil did its worst and met its match.
- John W. Wenham Author: Assorted Authors |
| If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love. Author: Amy Carmichael |
There is no mystery in heaven or earth so great as this - a suffering Deity, an almighty Saviour nailed to a Cross.
- Sameul M. Zwemer Author: Assorted Authors |
| To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith. Author: Samuel Rutherford |
| The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor. Author: Samuel Rutherford |
