"If we are desirous to profit aright by meditating on the death of Christ, we ought to begin with cherishing abhorrence of our sins, in proportion to the severity of the punishment which he endured" John Calvin
"The whole value of the meditation of the suffering of Christ lies in this, that man should come to the knowledge of himself and sink and tremble" - Martin Luther
"Salvation comes to us through the death of Christ. His obedience is not enough. He must die. His crucifixion is the atonement of our sins." - A. B. Simpson
"We will enter paradise because Jesus went out from paradise on our behalf. We will live because Jesus died. We will be with God because Jesus was rejected from the presence of God in the terror of crucifixion." - A. W. Tozer
"The Son of God was forced to become a man, to be partaker of all our infirmities, to undergo a poor, painful, miserable, and contemptible life, to be persecuted, hated, and at last nailed to a cross, that, by such sufferings, He might render God propitious to that nature in which He suffered." - William Law
"What thoughts can conceive, what words express, the infinite greatness of that unparalleled love, which engaged the Son of God to come down from the mansions of his Father's glory to obey and die for sinful man… When he not only fulfilled the whole moral law, but did not spare to she his own most precious blood for us." - George Whitefield
"Behold Jesus Christ in his last sufferings when his enemies in earth and hell made their most violent attack upon him… Here we shall see the fortitude of a holy warrior and champion in the cause of God, in its highest perfection and greatest lustre, and an example fit for the soldiers to follow, that fight under this Captain." - Jonathan Edwards
"In the one day of Jesus' crucifixion, there were set forth to men, angels, and devils, love, sacrifice, and redeeming mercy, which are part of the very essence of God. Marvelous, indeed, the rending of the veil, by which such marvels are revealed." - F. B. Meyer
"We are told that Christ was killed for us, that his death has washed out our sins, and the by dying he disabled death itself… That is Christianity. That is the what has to be believed." - C. S. Lewis
"Before your very eyes, Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified." - Galations 3:1
"The highest revelation of love is made in the death of Jesus." - James Denney
"When we go to Christ for healing, faith eyes him peculiarly as one pierced." - John Owen
"We have a Savior who was far more willing to save us than we are willing to be saved… Christ is just as willing to receive and pardon, as he was willing to be taken prisoner, to bleed, and to die." - J. C. Ryle
"Were not the arms of the Son of God open on the cross; and an open passage made to his heart by the spear?" - Richard Baxter
"When we are fainting under the burden of sin, the Spirit takes us to the fountain of Christ's blood… The Spirit enables us to drink the waters of justification which run out of Christ's sides." - Thomas Watson
"We cannot contemplate too often what the Saviour endured in order to secure our salvation. The better we are acquainted with his sufferings, and the more frequently we meditate thereon, the warmer will be our love and deeper our gratitude." - A. W. Pink
If Christ has borne my punishment, I shall never bear it. Oh, what joy there is in this blessed assurance! Your hope that you are pardoned lies in this, that Jesus died. Those dear wounds of his bleed life for you." - Charles Spurgeon
"Let our hearts be touched with the feeling of that exquisite pain which our blessed Savior now endured, and let us look upon him who was thus pierced, and mourn… And when we behold what manner of death he died, let us in the behold with what manner of love he loved us." - Matthew Henry
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