Good Friday

“When you go against the grain of the universe, you get splinters.”

H.H. Farmer

“God’s power is at its greatest not in his destruction of the wicked but in his taking all the wickedness of the earth into himself and giving back love.”

J. N. Oswalt

“Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the suffering and humiliation of its God.”

Bruce Shelley

“So long as sin, death, and the curse remain in us, sin damns us, death kills us, and the curse curses us; but when these things are transferred to Christ, what is ours becomes His and what is His becomes ours. Let us learn, therefore, in every temptation to transfer sin, death, the curse, and all the evils that oppress us from ourselves to Christ, and, on the other hand, to transfer righteousness, life, and blessing from Him to us. For He does in fact bear all our evils, because God the Father, as Isaiah says, ‘has laid the iniquity of us all on Him’. And He willingly took them upon Himself. For He was not guilty; but He did this in order to do the Father’s will, by which we would be sanctified eternally.”

Martin Luther

“There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.”

C.H. Spurgeon