A. S. Byatt Quotes

...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that sin should be punished with death in the sinner or his surety; and therefore if God would bring many sons to glory, the Captain of their salvation must undergo sufferings and death, to make satisfaction for them.

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed... to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls.

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.

The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, Jesus himeself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil.

Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

Such was the will of the Father that his Son, blessed and glorious, whom he gave to us, and who was born for us, should by his own blood, sacrifice, and oblation, offer himself on the altar of the cross, not for himself, by whom "all things were made," but for our sins, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps.

I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time. He taught His gospel and was tried. He suffered and was crucified and resurrected on the third day. He, like His Father, has a body of flesh and bone. He made His Atonement. Of Him I bear witness. Of Him I am a witness.

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile.

God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

Jesus’ Cross shows the full force of evil, but also the full power of God’s mercy.

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.

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

Thank and glorify His Beloved Son, who, with indescribable suffering, gave His life on Calvary's cross to pay the debt of mortal sin. He it was who, through His atoning sacrifice, broke the bonds of death and with godly power rose triumphant from the tomb. He is our Redeemer, the Redeemer of all mankind. He is the Savior of the world. He is the Son of God, the Author of our salvation.

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

Even at the cross, God permitted what he hated - the unjust and agonizing death of his own precious Son - in order to accomplish something he prized above his own Son's cruel death; that is, salvation for a world of sinners. So the world's worst murder becomes the world's only salvation.

The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

Christ exhausted the cup of God’s wrath. For all who trust in Him there is nothing more in the cup. It is empty.