Top 100 Jesus Died Quotes
#1. Pluralism is denied logically; inclusivism is denied scripturally, and that leaves us with exclusivism ... you have to know that Jesus died and believe in it in order to be saved.
Norman Geisler
#2. How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?
J.C. Ryle
#3. A Roman soldier ... thrust a spear into Jesus' side and out came blood and water. Physicians say that a mixture of blood and water indicates that Jesus died of a broken heart. He poured out the last ounce of His blood to redeem us.
Billy Graham
#4. People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
N. T. Wright
#5. For I bring not a religion ... but a Person, who loves people, who died for them on the cross. For Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and He will not that any one should perish. He understands every single individual.
Corrie Ten Boom
#6. Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought.
Daniil Kharms
#7. Jesus died for our sins, not our sexuality.
Troy Perry
#8. Jesus died for your sins. I'm doing it for your mere entertainment dollar.
Doug Stanhope
#9. Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.
Patti Smith
#10. Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race.
Mark Twain
#11. Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly.
"What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts.
"I was just seeing if you were listening.
David Levithan
#12. The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins that all we unborn generations might have been contemplating in the future. Adam's sin is perhaps mitigated by the extenuating circumstance that he didn't exist.
Richard Dawkins
#13. Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#14. I want to stop writing, stare you in the face, and scream: Jesus died! He chose the most grueling death to bring you to God! Everything is changed! You and I were destined for a horrifying encounter with God - we were "objects of wrath" (Eph. 2:3) - but that has all changed! Death
Francis Chan
#15. Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.
John Ortberg
#16. Jesus didn't die to save me from God. Jesus died to save me from myself.
Ricky Maye
#17. The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.
A.W. Tozer
#18. I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal ... God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.
Joel Osteen
#20. I love the church, the church that God is establishing, that Jesus died for, so I'll never have any negative things to say about His church.
LeCrae
#21. Serving people we don't see eye to eye with is the essence of Christianity. Jesus died for a world with which he didn't see eye to eye. If a bakery doesn't want to sell its products to a gay couple, it's their business. Literally. But leave Jesus out of it.
Andy Stanley
#22. My entire theology can be condensed into four words, 'JESUS DIED FOR ME'.
Charles Spurgeon
#23. When Jesus died on the cross and cried out, 'It is finished!' He not only died for our sins, but for our diseases too.
Kathryn Kuhlman
#24. I want to encourage you to reject any form of pump-you-up sermons that are only a veiled way of telling you to die again the death that Jesus died for you. Don't spend time killing off the life Jesus gave you. There's a word for that - Gnosticism
Blaise Foret
#25. Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It's important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.
Joyce Meyer
#26. Jesus died so we could live, now our flesh must die so He can live through us.
Hope D. Blackwell
#27. No one who believes that Jesus died for man can doubt the validity and efficacy of vicarious ministration.
James E. Talmage
#28. Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.
Mark Driscoll
#29. The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.
John Piper
#30. When Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom so that big sinners like me might fit through.
Charles Spurgeon
#31. I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God's Word that showed me I wasn't living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.
Joyce Meyer
#32. Remember, if you don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing
Ricky Gervais
#33. On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide ... Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice ... but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself.
George MacDonald
#34. I want to declare to you today: Jesus died to make you holy. It is possible for you to live a life without bondage to sin.
Karen Wheaton
#35. Jesus died as He had lived-praying, forgiving, loving, sacrificing, trusting, quoting Scripture. If I die as I have lived, how will I die?
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#36. There's a belief that you're supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don't see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.
Joel Osteen
#37. Until Jesus died upon the cross and paid the price of man's sin, no human soul could enter heaven,
Leo John Trese
#38. Perfectionism will make you sour, mean, and judgmental, and it will rob you of the freedom Jesus died to give you.
Steve Brown
#39. We will never achieve holiness by what we do or don't do. Our only hope is to claim the holiness that Jesus died to give us: His holiness.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#40. If you're a Christian you can't have an "I'm better than" attitude toward anyone because everybody is somebody for whom Jesus died.
Andy Stanley
#41. Thank you," he says.
"Thank who?"
"I don't know. You?"
"No, not me. Jesus."
"Thank you, Jesus?"
"Yes, Toph, Jesus died for your Christmas fun.
Dave Eggers
#42. Jesus died for our sins not so that we could sort out abstract ideas, but so that we, having been put right, could become part of God's plan to put his whole world right. That is how the revolution works.
N. T. Wright
#43. You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
#44. Never allow the cross to lose it's centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions, but the ultimate source of hope for every problem we face in our lives is the cross where Jesus died.
Brandon Cox
#45. Jesus died on the cross not only so I wouldn't have to go to hell, but also to give me an abundant life on this Earth.
Perry Noble
#46. Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
Tony Campolo
#47. Someone who visited the Billy Graham Library noticed all the crosses displayed and said to her host, "Where is Jesus? Why isn't He on the cross?" Her host smiled and said, "We do not worship a crucifix. Jesus died on the cross, but He did not stay on the cross ... He lives!
Billy Graham
#48. The ISIS situation is not just "their problem to deal with in the Middle East," it's OUR PROBLEM because it involves people Jesus died for.
Perry Noble
#49. Many Christians live as if salvation is the only reason Jesus died. Christ died so we would die to sin and live to righteousness (1Peter 2:24) This is a life long discipline that we must exercise every moment. His marvelous grace does not excuse us from His expectations of holy living.
William Branks
#50. It is not enough that Jesus died. Someone must apply the blood of Jesus to the national sin of (the) USA.
Lou Engle
#51. I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.
Sherri Shepherd
#52. I do believe Jesus died so we could feel freed up to go after life to the full, so we would feel equpped to take risks and not beat ourselves up when we fail. He didn't die to make our lives look perfect. He died so we could stop feeling as if our lives have to be perfect for them to mean something.
Mandy Steward
#53. Don't undervalue yourself. God loves you. Your worth is what you are worth to God. Jesus died for you. You are of infinite value.
Nicky Gumbel
#54. We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.
Timothy Keller
#55. Jesus died to redeem you," she said.
"I never ast him," he muttered.
Flannery O'Connor
#56. God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.
Charles Stanley
#57. We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.
Adrian Rogers
#58. Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#59. Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin.
Edward T. Welch
#60. We often say things like, "Jesus died so I didn't have to, " but it's actually much worse. The truth is, Jesus died and so did I. But the worse morphs into better when we remember that Jesus didn't stay dead. And neither do we. Let the dying moments remind us where to find the living.
Emily P. Freeman
#61. We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.
A.W. Tozer
#62. Let me tell you how worthwhile you are. You are infinitely valuable to God. First, God created you. Second, Jesus died for you. Third, he puts his Spirit within you. Fourth, he wants you to be with him forever in eternity. That's how valuable you are to God. You are infinitely valuable to God.
Rick Warren
#63. I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.
John Wesley
#64. Jesus died! He chose the most grueling death to bring you to God! Everything is changed! You and I were destined for a horrifying encounter with God - we were "objects of wrath" (Eph. 2:3) - but that has all changed! Death no longer scares me! I can't wait to die! Thank you Jesus!!!
Francis Chan
#65. When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.
Max Lucado
#66. Only Jesus has prophecies made hundreds of years in advance made literally true. Only He did miracles; only His immediate followers claimed He died and rose from the dead, so in comparison, He comes out superior to other great religious leaders.
Norman Geisler
#67. A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough ... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.
Voltaire
#68. Jesus didn't die on the cross so we can do something epic. He died so we can have a relationship with an epic God who moves in epic ways!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#69. So many have wept for Jesus on His cross. As if no one else has ever suffered as He suffered. As if millions have not shuffled to worse deaths, and died unremembered.
Joe Hill
#70. Jesus Christ was a simple man walked around, did a few miracles, said a few things and died. It was enough for him to say what he felt and glow with the light of eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#71. No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.
Billy Graham
#72. Let go of your past, and look to Mine, where I died for you. Yield to Me, and I will make you a true Knight of the Prince.
Chuck Black
#73. 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
#74. There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three.
Billy Graham
#75. Jesus Christ came for me, and he came for each person that is infected with HIV/AIDS. God loves that person. He doesn't hate them. They've made mistakes. We've all made mistakes. But God loves them, God cares for them, and Jesus Christ died for their sins.
Franklin Graham
#76. And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
Julien Benda
#77. The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is why Christ died.
John Piper
#78. Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous! Faithfulness isn't holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell with the light and love of Jesus Christ.
Mark Batterson
#79. I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a hallucination. He said hallucinations are an individual event. If 500 people have the same hallucination, that's a bigger miracle than the resurrection.
Lee Strobel
#80. Christ died not so that you could freely go on sinning, and therefore, continue dying; He died rather so that you could freely grow in obedience, and therefore, start living.
Criss Jami
#81. I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.
Ignatius Of Antioch
#82. Any suggestion that God has returned to his Old Testament theocratic mode of operation - as in raising up America as a uniquely favored nation - is not only unwarranted, it is a direct assault on the distinct holiness of Jesus Christ and the kingdom he died to establish.
Gregory A. Boyd
#83. Jesus didn't leave a material inheritance to His disciples. All He had when He died was a robe. But Jesus willed His followers something more valuable than gold. He willed us His peace. He said: "My peace I give to you; not as the world gives" [John 14:27 KJV].
Billy Graham
#85. I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career.
Marc Maron
#86. The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#87. Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible.
Billy Graham
#88. Jesus shouldn't have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many of the best things he said. Human hands started messing it all up and now so much of religion is hogwash.
Jimi Hendrix
#89. Jesus told me that he died on the cross so we could go see his Dad - Colton Burpo
Todd Burpo
#90. That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#91. Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our standing before God. He died to purify for Himself a people eager to obey Him, a people eager to be transformed into His likeness.
Jerry Bridges
#92. If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they.
Barack Obama
#93. The smell that came out of the lorry was disgusting. Sour and rotten. 'Jesus, who's died? he said. 'About four-fifth's of the population of the world' said Justin.
'Very funny
Charlie Higson
#94. That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#95. I consider myself a Christian - a true believer in Jesus Christ - that He died for our sins.
Antonio Sabato Jr.
#96. Christ died for our sins. Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, took upon Himself a human nature and died a horrible death on our behalf. That is the reason for the cross. He suffered what we should have suffered. He died in our place to pay the penalty for our sins.
Jerry Bridges
#97. For instance, if Jesus Christ had died in prison, with no one watching and with no one there to mourn or torture him, would we be saved?
With all due respect.
According to the agent, the biggest factor that makes you a saint is the amount of press coverage you get.
Chuck Palahniuk
#98. If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?
Dwight L. Moody
#99. Is it true, what Jesus believed, this Truth that he died for and lived for? Maybe the only way to know finally this side of falling off that precipice ourselves is to stop speaking and thinking and reading about it so much and to start watching and listening.
Frederick Buechner
#100. I know the moment you died,
Jesus' face was smiling on you,
Welcoming you into His glorious city of gold.
I know you are enjoying the incredible light and peace of His presence right now
Lisa Bedrick
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