Top 43 Quotes About Jesus Death On The Cross
#1. The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.
Thomas Aquinas
#2. We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#3. Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God's beginning.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#5. Every time I go look for God amidst sorrow, I always find Jesus at the cross, in death and resurrection. This is our God.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#6. Jesus Christ opened heaven's door for us by His death on the cross.
Billy Graham
#7. If true love were only about feelings, Jesus would have been hugged to death for our redemption. Thank God for His cross this and every day.
Mark Hart
#8. 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
#9. And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?
Frederick Buechner
#10. 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
#11. Jesus' death on the cross is not an accident or an injustice that befell him; it is, rather, an act of sacrifice freely offered for the sake of God's people.
Richard B. Hays
#12. Jesus, Lacey. You just scared me half to death."
I forced a laugh. "Only half? Damn.
Violet Cross
#13. 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
#14. The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.
Robert Barron
#16. There are an incalculable number of things within me that I frantically wish to be emptied of, and despite my most earnest efforts to remove them, they remain. And it is Easter that reminds me that God empties out tombs.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#17. If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#18. What happens at the cross is a "blessed exchange." God gathers up all our sin, all our broken-ass junk, into God's own self and transforms all that death into life. Jesus takes our crap and exchanges it for his blessedness.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#19. The God of freedom, the true God, is ... not recognized by his power and glory in the history of the world, but through his helplessness and his death on the scandal of the cross of Jesus
Jurgen Moltmann
#20. Saul fell upon his sword to avoid suffering. Jesus stretched himself upon the cross to take away ours.
Saul's suicide cheated his enemies. Jesus' sacrifice cheated death.
Lisa Bevere
#21. When Jesus hung on the cross, a great unseen cosmic battle raged in the heavens - and in the end, Christ triumphed over all the forces of evil and death and hell.
Billy Graham
#22. As for me, my charter is Jesus Christ, the inviolable charter is His cross and His death and resurrection, and faith through Him.
Ignatius Of Antioch
#23. It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put [Jesus] on the cross - it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer his death.
Billy Graham
#25. Jesus defeated satan in Gethsemane on the cross, not by directly confronting the devil, but by fulfilling the destiny to which He had been called. The greatest battle that was ever won was accomplished by the apparent death of the victor, without even a word of rebuke to His adversary!
Francis Frangipane
#26. Maybe I don't have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#27. God emptied out that first tomb so that He could turn around and empty out me.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#28. Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#29. The death of Jesus Christ on the cross is His greatest single act of unwavering trust in His Abba's love. He plunged into the darkness of death, not fully knowing what awaited Him, confident that somehow, some way, His Abba would vindicate Him.
Brennan Manning
#30. The primary reason Jesus came to earth was to inaugurate the Kingdom of God. Often, we hear that the reason Jesus came to the earth was to die on the Cross. Jesus did come to die on the Cross, but that death on the Cross was for the purpose of establishing the Kingdom of God.
John Eckhardt
#31. One-third of Matthew ... one-third of Mark ... one-fourth of Luke, and one-half of John are given to [Christ's] death ... Jesus came for the express purpose of dying for sinners. When He left heaven, He knew He was going to the cross.
Billy Graham
#32. Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#33. The foundation, the motivation of a life of humility, is the example of Jesus Christ's humble life and sacrificial death on the cross.
Matt Chandler
#34. When Jesus cried, 'It is finished!' He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. There were still three days and nights to go through before He went to the throne ... Jesus' death on the cross was only the beginning of the complete work of redemption.
Kenneth Copeland
#35. When the author speaks of the 'blood of Jesus' he is referring to his violent death on the cross.
Colin G. Kruse
#36. His[Jesus'] death on the Cross is the culmination of that turning of God against himself in which he gives himself in order to raise man up and save him. This is love in its most radical form.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
#37. Jesus didn't die as a frustrated failed revolutionary. His death was the revolution.
William H. Willimon
#38. Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#39. Reasonably speaking, we can see the cross as entirely possible. But in considering Easter, we see an empty tomb as entirely impossible. And is it possible that God had to do the impossible to finally get our attention?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#40. Your success is not in what you do, but in who you are in Jesus. His death on the cross, His resurrection life, and His righteousness define you.
Lynn A. Coleman
#41. What would our hospitality look like if we believed that Jesus's death on the cross was the measure of God's compassion for someone?
Gloria Furman
#42. 2:2 The testimony of God is my only persuasion concerning you: Jesus Christ died your death on the cross! I can see you in no other light! (For I determined to know nothing in you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.)
Francois Du Toit
#43. The way to God was opened, not by the life of Jesus or the example of Jesus, not even by the teaching of Jesus, but by the death of Jesus on the cross. "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. ... " (1 Peter 3:18).
Warren W. Wiersbe