Quotes about Calvary

A place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull.

Jesus Christ paid the price for our eternal salvation through the shedding of His blood on Calvary's cross for all men—equally.

It is from the sacrifice of the will in Gethsemane that the sacrifice of the life on Calvary derives its value.

The crucial significance of the cradle at Bethlehem lies in its place in the sequence of steps down that led the Son of God to the cross of Calvary, and we do not understand it till we see it in this context.

Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and settled the accounts.

The love of God shows us that God alone bridges the distance between him and us, enabling us to see this world through Calvary.

Let a man be right with God, reconciled through the blood of the cross, humbled at the foot of Calvary; let him be broken, coming to God guilty and hopeless and needy; and at that moment God takes hold of him and transforms and uses all his gifts and qualities, until that man becomes a mighty influence. But he has first to come down from his ladder of pride to the very foot of the cross.

When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.

From all that dims Thy Calvary, O Lamb of God, deliver me.

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

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.