3. “The cross is the real heart of the gospel and the key to the inner meaning of the Christian faith.” ~ Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, 1929

4. “If the Cross of Christ is anything to the mind, it is surely everything – the most profound reality and the sublimest mystery.” ~ Samuel M. Zwemer

5. “It would be most unseemly to feign a cool detachment as we contemplate Christ’s Cross. For… we are involved. Our sins put him there.” ~ John Stott

6. “Humanity cannot escape God. The race exists in an unavoidable relation to God, either of wrath and alienation, or of blessing and fellowship. Sin places us under the first; the Atonement makes it possible for us to regain the second.” ~ Richard S. Taylor

7. “His death on the cross was a great example to the world.” ~ Gandhi

8. “You do not understand Christ till you understand his cross.” ~ P.T. Forsyth

9. “The death of Christ is the central point of history.” ~ Stephen Neill

10. “Calvary was not an option.” ~ Richard S. Taylor

11. “The cross used to stand for Jesus, and more precisely, the suffering of Jesus. Now it stands for an institution that most often doesn’t really stand for anything other than the advancement of it’s own institutionality.” ~ Michael Card

12. “He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve.” ~ John Stott

13. “When I survey the wondrous cross On which the prince of glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And poor contempt on all my pride.” ~ Isaac Watts

14. “Remember, to believe something is to act as if it is so.” ~ Dallas Willard

15. “We preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.” ~ 1 Corinthians 1:23 (NIV)

16. “The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.” ~ Mark 10:45 (NRSV)

17. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” ~ John the Baptist, John 1:29 (NASB)

18. “Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong.” ~ Habakkuk 1:13 (NIV)

19. “When someone is convicted of a crime punishable by death and is executed, and you hang him on a tree, his corpse must not remain all night upon the tree; you shall bury him that same day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God's curse.” ~ Deuteronomy 21:22-23 (NRSV)

20. “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.’” ~ Galatians 3:13 (NIV)

21. “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.” ~ 1 Peter 2:24 (NIV)

27. “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” ~ Romans 6:23 (NASB)