Calvary Quotes

• 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

  Easter, Believe, History

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.207

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• If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Cold, Offence, Knows

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• Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Forgiving, May, Forgiven

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “Spurgeon's Sermon Notes”, p.213, Kregel Publications

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• If you want the perfect plan that God has for your life, you will have to go by way of Calvary to get it.

  Billy Graham

  Perfect, Want, Way

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Disappointment, Attitude, Fear

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.21, CLC Publications

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• Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Friday, Running, Jesus

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• All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

  John Stott

  Self, Views, Feet

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• Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.

  Robert Baer

  Oneness, God With Us, Bethlehem

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• Mount Calvary is the academy of love.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Saint, Passion Of The Christ, Academy

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (1962*). “Treatise on the Love of God”, p.513, Aeterna Press

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• When it becomes a deep rooted revelation of what Jesus Christ did for you at Calvary, you will never walk away!

  Jerry Savelle

  Jesus, Christ, Revelations

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• When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him. He settled for everything, and then He cried, 'It is finished.' And on the basis of that finished work, God can freely forgive, and justify completely, every poor sinner who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Jesus, Forgiving

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• No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as on that very spot where misery reigned, where woe triumphed, where agony reached its climax.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Agony, Soul

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.234, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still sits on His great throne and His train still fills the temple. He still walks on the wings of the wind, He still rides on the backs of the mighty cherubim, and He still is the Triumphant Champion from Calvary. All hell still bends to His will, and sin and death have lost their hold on all who rest in the shadow of His presence. And the God who calmed storms, raised up dead men to life, and multiplied fishes and loaves to feed thousands is the same God we have today.

  Eric Ludy

  Men, Past, Years

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• If I do not give a friend "The benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Easter, Giving, Doubt

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.34, CLC Publications

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• To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, "I LOVE YOU." Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

  Philip Yancey

  Lonely, Pain, Love You

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• Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled.

  Alan Keyes

  Blood, God's Plan, Innocence

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• The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Law

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• Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

  John Piper

  Sweet, People, Needs

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• When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any greater, for it was already infinite. We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No--Jesus died because God is showing mercy. It was the mercy of God that gave us Calvary, not Calvary that gave us mercy. If God had not been merciful there would have been no incarnation, no babe in the manger, no man on a cross and no open tomb.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Men, Mercy Of God

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• Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

  Philip Yancey

  Lonely, Angel, Justice

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.111, Harper Collins

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• If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Depressing, Blame, Praise

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• There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Gethsemane, Deeper

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• If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Goal, Easier, Ifs

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.28, CLC Publications

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• 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

  Son, Sacrifice, Looks

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.143, NavPress

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• The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon one for whom He has died.

  Ellen G. White

  Agony, Might, Kingdoms

  Ellen G. White (1926). “The Desire of Ages—Illustrated”, p.228, Digital Inspiration

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