If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
– CT Studd –
The Cross
Sin and Righteousness – AW Tozer
The only sin Jesus ever had was ours, and the only righteousness we can ever have is His.
– AW Tozer –
Embrace, don’t drag, the cross – Teresa of Avila
The lukewarm do not embrace the cross; they merely drag it along.
– Teresa of Avila –
Christ’s death is the Christian life – JC Ryle
Christ’s death is the Christian’s life. Christ’s cross is the Christian’s title to heaven.
– JC Ryle –
Going willingly – Thomas Watson
Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.
– Thomas Watson –
It’s their nature – Charles Spurgeon
Let the dogs bark, it is their nature too. Go on preaching Christ crucified.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Jesus didn’t die to save us from hell – Leonard Ravenhill
Without holiness, no one shall see the Lord. Jesus didn’t die to save us from hell. That’s a fringe benefit! He died to get total occupation of us … [and to make us] holy in speech … in actions … in everything.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Discounting the Cross – Martyn Lloyd-Jones
It is not surprising that the cross has been discounted by modern theologians; it is because they have started with the love of God without His holiness.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
The Cross is needful – Samuel Rutherford
I find that when the saints are under trial and well humbled, little sins raise great cries in the conscience; but in prosperity, conscience is a pope that gives dispensations and great latitude to our hearts. The cross is therefore as needful as the crown is glorious.
– Samuel Rutherford –