3. “The crucifixion of Jesus is the greatest theme, not only of the Bible but of the human race.” ~ Gerald Coats

4. “The Cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the Living and loving God.” ~ N.T. Wright, First Century Historian

5. “We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.” ~ Cardinal Hume

6. “Who would ever have thought that a Galilean carpenter would come to be regarded by millions as the human being most like God ever to have walked this planet?” ~ Angela Tilby, BBC Documentary writer

7. “The passion of Jesus Christ is the judgment of God, in which the Judge himself was the judged.” ~ Karl Barth

8. “The wrath of God is the love of God in the form in which the man who has turned away from God experiences it.” ~ Emil Brunner

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

10. “Everything of God gets expressed in Jesus, so you can see and hear him clearly.” ~ Eugene Peterson

11. “I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross…. In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? ~ John Stott

12. “The cross, in fact, is the redeeming turning-point of history. It is the goal of Israel’s strange covenant story. As a result, it is God’s way of healing his world.” ~ N.T. Wright, First Century Historian

13. “The greatest disease in the world is the disease of being unloved.” ~ Princess Dianna, 1995

14. “At the heart of our universe is one who not only loves us but has made his love known in the most unforgettable way.” ~ Derek Tidball, Theologian

15. “God’s own heart suffered on the cross.” ~ Karl Barth

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

17. “It is Calvary which makes trust in God possible, not because Calvary is a demonstration of God’s love – though it is that – but because it is a proof of God’s integrity. God said that sin would bring death. In Christ hanging on the cross, we see God keeping his word.” ~ Dr. Richard S. Taylor

18. “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

19. “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

20. “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

21. “The nail that pierces the hand of Jesus goes through to the hand of God. The spear thrust into the side of Jesus goes through into God’s.” ~ George Butterick

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

23. “To have received the love of God in our own lives and then to refuse to share it with others is to turn God’s free-flowing grace into a stagnant pool.” ~ Derek Tidball, Theologian

24. “Amazing love! How can it be That thou, my God, should’st die for me?” ~ Charles Wesley

25. “But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.” ~ Romans 5:8, NRSV

26. “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” ~ John 10:9, NASB

27. “The greatest disease in the world is the disease of being unloved.” ~ Princess Dianna, 1995

28. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” ~ John 3:16, NASB

29. “Beneath all my seemingly strong self- confidence there remained the question; ‘If all those who shower me with so much attention could see me and know me in my innermost serf, would they still love me?’ That agonizing question, rooted in my inner shadow, kept persecuting me and made me run away from the very place where that quite voice calling me the Beloved could be heard.” ~ Henri Nouwen, Life Of The Beloved

31. Gk., “hilasterion“ = Lit., “place of atonement”

32. “Atonement”= “At – one – ment”

33. “To have received the love of God in our own lives and then to refuse to share it with others is to turn God’s free-flowing grace into a stagnant pool.” ~ Derek Tidball, Theologian

34. “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” ~ Galatians 2:20-21, NIV

35. “One is not justified by faith by believing in justification by faith. One is justified by faith by believing in Jesus.” ~ N.T. Wright

36. “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” ~ Galatians 2:20-21, NIV

42. “But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.” ~ Romans 5:8, NRSV

43. “Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith.” ~ Galatians 3:24, NRSV

44. "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many." ~ Mark 10:45, NASB

45. “He disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it.” ~ Colossians 2:15, NRSV