the Son of God became a
man to enable men to become sons of God. - C.S. Lewis
The Blood deals with what we have done,
whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while
the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin. --Watchman Nee
"Out, damned spot!" That is the true
cry of human nature. That stain cannot be removed without blood, and that which
is infinitely more, and deeper, and profounder, and more terrible than blood,
of which blood is but the symbol - the suffering of Deity.
--G. Campbell Morgan
Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the
Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely
more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God. --Oswald Chambers
The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully
misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from Hell
rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived,
for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire
to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness. --Arthur W. Pink
The blood of Jesus Christ has great
power! There is perhaps not a phrase in the Bible that is so full of secret
truth as is "The blood of Jesus." It is the secret of His
incarnation, when Jesus took on flesh and blood; the secret of His obedience
unto death, when He gave His life at the cross of Calvary; the secret of His
love that went beyond all understanding when He bought us with His blood; the
secret of the enemy and the secret of our eternal salvation. --Corrie Ten Boom
Christianity is not a formula, but the Person
of Jesus Himself. Never think that Christianity is a matter of adjusting
behavior, but rather, of letting Christ live through us in His strength and
power. --Malcolm Smith
All our salvation consists in the manifestation
of the nature, life and spirit of Jesus Christ in our inward new man. This
alone is Christian redemption, this alone delivers from the guilt and power of
sin, this alone redeems and renews. --William Law
To be crucified means three things. First,
the man who is crucified is facing only one direction.... If he hears anything
behind him he can't turn around to see what's going on. He has stopped looking
back. The crucified man on the cross is looking in only one direction and that
is the direction of God and Christ and the Holy Spirit and the direction of the
edifying of the church, the direction of sanctification and the direction of
the Spirit-filled life..., the fellow going out to die on the cross doesn't say
to his wife, "Good-bye, honey. I'll be back shortly after five." When
you go out to die on the cross you bid goodbye - you're not going back!
Another thing about the man on the
cross,...he has no further plans of his own.... Somebody else made his plans
for him, and when they nailed him up there all his plans disappeared. On the
way up to the hill he didn't see a friend and say, "Well, Henry, next
Saturday about three I'll come by and we'll go fishing up on the lake." He
was going out to die and he had no plans at all. --A. W. Tozer
Learn to know Christ and him crucified. Learn
to sing to him, and say, "Lord Jesus, you are my righteousness, I am your
sin. You have taken upon yourself what
is mine and given me what is yours. You have become what you were not so that I
might become what I was not." --Martin
Luther
As you gaze upon the cross, and long
for conformity to him, be not weary or fearful because you cannot express in
words what you seek. Ask him to plant the cross in your heart. Believe in him,
the crucified and now living one, to dwell within you, and breathe his own mind
there. --Andrew Murray
The Christian life is not by effort, and not
by struggle; not merely by trying to put into practice certain maxims, or by
trying to attain to a certain measure; but from beginning to end, and all
together, it is a matter of knowing the Lord Jesus within. -- T. Austin-Sparks
From my many years of experience I
can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross. Sadhu
Sundar Singh
Union with Christ is really the central truth
of the whole doctrine of salvation not only in its application but also in its
once-for-all accomplishment in the finished work of Christ. Indeed the whole process
of salvation has its origin in one phase of union with Christ and salvation has
in view the realization of other phases of union with Christ. --John Murray
The believer's death with Christ upon
His Cross therefore means being crucified to the world in all its aspects. Not
to be a miserable, joyless person, but one filled with the joy and glory of
another world. It is not the "cross" that makes us miserable, but the
absence of it. It is a delivering Cross - a Cross that liberates you to have
the very foretaste of heaven in you, as already sharers of the power of the age
to come.... Glory to God for the Cross that severs us from the world, and the
world- spirit, and makes a way for us into another world where all is peace and
joy and love. --Jessie Penn-Lewis
