Crucifixion Quotes

• It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Nice, Crucifixion Of Christ, Cost

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

  Loretta Lynn

  Easter, Crucifixion Of Christ, Perfect

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.12, Vintage

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• Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is...No.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Winning, Self, Discipline

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• Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.

  Stephen Charnock

  Happiness, Death, Christian

  "Christ Our Passover".

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• Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

  Peter Kreeft

  Reason, Incarnation

  Peter Kreeft (2001). “Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church”

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• Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you.

  Mother Teresa

  Pain, Opportunity, Self

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• By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!

  Frederic Farrar

  Friday, Son, Holy Days

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• It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Jesus, Facts

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2015

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• No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  No Cross, No Crown (1669) See Proverbs 212

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• By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we have nailed Him there and crucified Him; but the Love in His eternal heart could not be extinguished. He willed to give us the very life we slew; to give us the very Food we destroyed; to nourish us with the very Bread we buried, and the very Blood we poured forth. He made our very crime into a happy fault; He turned a Crucifixion into a Redemption; a Consecration into a Communion; a death into Life Everlasting

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Beautiful, Heart, Mean

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• Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

  Simone Weil

  Distance, Love Is, Agony

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Crowns, Want, Thorns

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• Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Atheism, Demand, Christianity

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• Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Prayer, Mean

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• You have the right to claim blessing, healing, protection, freedom, deliverance, because He was unjustly nailed to a cross so you could have a life that is fulfilling.

  T. B. Joshua

  Healing, Blessing, Deliverance

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• It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Citizens, Impossible, Murder

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• Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Easter, Christ On The Cross, Answers

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.88, Open Road Media

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• Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Pain, Shadow

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.141, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1966). “Sermons on the Gospel of John”

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• It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.57, Ignatius Press

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• A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.

  Andrew Murray

  Jesus, Easter, Life Changing

  Andrew Murray (2013). “Jesus Himself”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• No one can out-sin the cross of Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Sin, Christ, Crosses

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• If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

  Jean Cocteau

  Crucifixion Of Christ, Crowds, Ifs

  Le Coq et l'Arlequin (1918) in Le Rappel ... l'ordre (Recall to Order, 1926) p. 39

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• The resurrection is the keystone of the arch on which our faith is supported. If Christ has not risen, we must impeach all those witnesses for lying. If Christ has not risen, we have no proof that the crucifixion of Jesus differed from that of the two thieves who suffered with him. If Christ has not risen, it is impossible to believe his atoning death was accepted.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Easter, Lying

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• Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has been given to you by others - if you drop all that has been given by others, you will have a totally different quality to your being: innocence. This will be a crucifixion of the persona, the personality, and there will be a resurrection of your innocence. You will become a child again, reborn.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Names, Personality

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