“Nothing superficially seems simpler than forgiveness, but nothing if we look deeply is more mysterious or more difficult.” ~ B. F. Westcott, 1903

“The cross is the real heart of the gospel and the key to the inner meaning of the Christian faith.” ~ Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, 1929

“You do not understand Christ till you understand his cross.” ~ P.T. Forsyth

“The passion of Jesus Christ is the judgment of God, in which the Judge himself was the judged.” ~ Karl Barth

“The wrath of God is the love of God in the form in which the man who has turned away from God experiences it.” ~ Emil Brunner

“His death on the cross was a great example to the world.” ~ Gandhi

“I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross…. In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? ~ John Stott

“God’s own heart suffered on the cross.” ~ Karl Barth

“The death of Christ is the central point of history.” ~ Stephen Neill

“It is Calvary which makes trust in God possible, not because Calvary is a demonstration of God’s love – though it is that – but because it is a proof of God’s integrity. God said that sin would bring death. In Christ hanging on the cross, we see God keeping his word.” ~ Dr. Richard S. Taylor

“The cross used to stand for Jesus, and more precisely, the suffering of Jesus. Now it stands for an institution that most often doesn’t really stand for anything other than the advancement of it’s own institutionality.” ~ Michael Card

“God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.” ~ John Stott

“Amazing love! How can it be That thou, my God, should’st die for me?” ~ Charles Wesley

“We preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.” ~ 1 Corinthians 1:23-24 (NIV)

“May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” ~ Galatians 6:14, NRSV

“Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.” ~ Ephesians 4:31-32 (NRSV)

The Triad of Truth… Only focus on side 1 = depression. Only focus on side 2 = fear. Only focus on side 3 = presumption.

“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” ~ 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)

“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.” ~ 1 Peter 2:24 (NIV)

“For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many." ~ Mark 10:45, NRSV

“For there is one God; there is also one mediator between God and humankind, Christ Jesus, himself human, who gave himself a ransom for all.” ~ 1 Timothy 2:5-6, NRSV

“For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.” ~ Romans 6:14, NRSV

“Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed.” ~ Galatians 3:23, NRSV

“Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.” ~ Romans 10:4, NIV

“You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.” ~ 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, NIV

“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.” ~ 1 John 3:16, NIVi

“If we are looking for a definition of love, we should look not in a dictionary, we should look not in a dictionary, but at Calvary.” ~ John Stott