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
May 2, 2015
You need the blood of Jesus as much now as at first. You never can stand before God in yourself. You must go again and again to be washed. Even on your dying bed, you must hide under Jehovah, our righteousness. You must also lean on Jesus. He alone can overcome the sin in you. Draw nearer and nearer to Him every day.
– Robert Murray McCheyne –
February 27, 2015
Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness. So do not seek to hide from it. Do not accept an easy way. Do not allow yourself to be patted to sleep in a comfortable church, void of power and barren of fruit. Do not paint the cross nor deck it with flowers. Take it for what it is, as it is, and you will find it the rugged way to death and life. Let it slay you utterly.
– AW Tozer –
February 24, 2015
That death was not on His own account. His humanity had no need to die. He might have lived on and have seen no death, if He had so willed. He had committed no offense, no sin, and, therefore, no punishment could fall upon Him. Every pang upon the cross was substitutionary; for you, the sons of men, the Prince of Glory bled, “the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18).
– Charles Spurgeon –
from God Loves You
January 8, 2014
The Word of God is a looking glass, to show us our spots; and the blood of Christ is a fountain to wash them away.
– Thomas Watson –
January 1, 2015
Let us be ever careful that we not pursue the Cross-centered life without returning frequently to the Cross itself.
– Anonymous –
December 9, 2014
The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
– Watchman Nee –
November 10, 2014
How precious is He too, in His Resurrection! He justifies all His people at one stroke—rising from the dead—that glorious Sun scatters all the nights of all His people by one rising! How precious is He in His Ascension as He leads captivity captive, and scatters gifts among men! And how precious today in those incessant pleadings of His through which the mercies of God come down like the angels upon Jacob’s ladder to our needy souls!
– Charles Spurgeon –
September 8, 2014
On that dear Cross my soul hangs all her confidence—not a rag anywhere else! … This is an essential mark of a Christian, that he sees Jesus with the simple faith that relies alone upon Him. Dear Hearer, do you in this respect see Jesus? If so, rest assured that where He is in His Glory, you shall shortly be! There is life in that look! There is more than life present—there is life eternal in a look at Him!
– Charles Spurgeon –