Cross Of Calvary Quotes

#1. We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

Alexander MacLaren

#2. We are all of us remarkably goodtempered while we have our own way; but the true meekness, which is a work of grace, will stand the fire of persecution, and will endure the test of enmity, cruelty, and wrong, even as the meekness of Christ did upon the cross of Calvary.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.

Miles J. Stanford

#4. Pride is associated with failure, not success. We hear a great deal about the inferiority complex, but the superiority complex of pride is seldom spoken of ... The greatest act of humility ... was when Jesus Christ stooped to die on the cross of Calvary.

Billy Graham

#5. The underlying foundation of the Christian faith is the undeserved, limitless miracle of the love of God that was exhibited on the Cross of Calvary; a love that is not earned and can never be.

Oswald Chambers

#6. Exalt the Cross! God has hung the destiny of the race upon it. Other things we may do in the realm of ethics, and on the lines of philanthropic reforms; but our main duty converges into setting that one glorious beacon of salvation, Calvary's Cross, before the gaze of every immortal soul.

Theodore L. Cuyler

#7. There are times when nothing holds the heart but a long, long look at Calvary. How very small anything that we are allowed to endure seems beside that Cross.

Amy Carmichael

#8. My sole hope for heaven lies in the full atonement made upon Calvary's cross for the ungodly. On that I firmly rely.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. Behind Calvary's cross is the throne of heaven.

James Stewart

#10. The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.

John Stott

#11. Jesus Christ at Calvary on the cross was a stamp of God's confirmation that hell is not our home.

Evans Biya

#12. Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.

Oswald Chambers

#13. The most pressing problem facing America can't be solved in Washington DC. True hope and change can't be found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It can only be found at the foot of the cross on Calvary.

Todd Starnes

#14. Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.

Richard J. Foster

#15. If we want proof of God's love for us, then we must look first at the Cross where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God's love for us.

Jerry Bridges

#16. Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from selfishness to sacrifice.

Jon Weber

#17. Best love story is not Romeo and Juliet but Jesus at Calvary on the Cross.

Evans Biya

#18. See to it, Christian, that you do not love the world. By faith in the cross of Christ, and the bleeding glories of Calvary; this world with all its riches and honors will become a dim and dying object in your view.

David Harsha

#19. Still speaking over me,' she says, meeting my eyes and scoffing. 'You are still that worthless little girl.

Rebecca Berto

#20. The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross. But his deformity is our comeliness. In this life, therefore, let us hold fast to the deformed Christ.

Augustine Of Hippo

#21. It wasn't work. I played myself.

Dick Van Dyke

#22. The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary.

Fulton J. Sheen

#23. When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.

James Montgomery

#24. Personally, I do the best work with people I'm closest with. I know what their tastes are, and they are similar to mine. That close personal relationship is what delivers the best work.

Atticus Ross

#25. The hill of comfort is the hill of Calvary; the house of consolation is built with the wood of the cross; the temple of heavenly blessing is founded upon the riven rock--riven by the spear which pierced his side. No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like Calvary's tragedy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#26. Maybe right now you can't see how to overcome an obstacle, accomplish your dreams, or forgive someone who hurt you, but understand that when you get there God will hand you the ticket. He purchased it two thousand years ago on a cross at Calvary.

Joel Osteen

#27. It has been said there was a cross in the heart of God long before the cross was erected at Calvary. As we think about it we will be overwhelmed at the wonder and greatness of His love for us.

Billy Graham

#28. The suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

Vida Dutton Scudder

#29. Sometimes the power of prayer is the power to carry on. It doesn't always change your circumstances, but it gives you the strength to walk through them. When you pray through, the burden is taken off of your shoulders and put on the shoulders of Him who carried the cross to Calvary.

Mark Batterson

#30. From all that dims Thy calvary O Lamb of God deliver me.

Amy Carmichael

#31. Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory.

J.C. Ryle

#32. Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him.

Jennifer Connelly

#33. Jesus didn't carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.

Mark Batterson