“God grades on the Cross not on the curve.” – Adrian Rogers1
“Salvation comes through a cross and a crucified Christ.” – Andrew Murray
“The cross is the greatest example of humility and devotion in the universe. Jesus put your needs ahead of His own. He considered you more valuable than Himself.” – Chip Ingram
“Taking up my ‘cross’ means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.” – A. W. Pink
“Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.” – Watchman Nee
“His brokenhearted cry on the cross, ‘Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do,’ shows God’s heart toward sinners.” – John R. Rice
“The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified. So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a eucharistic community, ceaselessly offering to God through Christ the sacrifice of our praise and thanksgiving. The Christian life is an unending festival. And the festival we keep, now that our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed for us, is a joyful celebration of his sacrifice, together with a spiritual feasting upon it.” – John Stott
“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.” – Phillips Brooks
“If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.” – Josh McDowell
“Jesus did not die on the cross just so we could live comfortable, well-adjusted lives. His purpose is far deeper: He wants to make us like himself before he takes us to heaven. This is our greatest privilege, our immediate responsibility, and our ultimate destiny.” – Rick Warren
“That the sinless Son of God must die upon the Cross to redeem us shouldn’t make us feel good about ourselves but ashamed, for it was our sins that nailed Him there.” – Dave Hunt
“The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.” – Samuel Rutherford
“It is hard for anyone who has a personal, intimate relationship with Jesus Christ to accept that the world hates Him, this One whom we love so much… I thought of the Lord of Glory hanging upon the cross on Calvary’s hill, with the mockers about Him. Yet He died for them–and for those who mock Him still.” – T. A. McMahon
“We must not forget that it wasn’t the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn’t the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.” – Franklin Graham
“The greatest adventure in life–knowing God–begins at the Cross of Christ and ends with a Hallelujah!” – David Jeremiah
“Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross.” – Tim Keller
1 All of these quotes are from the website below: