What an amazing inconsistency: the death penalty and war are considered essential conditions of life by people who call themselves Christians.
—Leo Tolstoy
Thanks be to God, we do not worship a dead Savior.
—D. L. Moody
When He shouted on the cross, “It is finished!” it was the shout of a conqueror. He had overcome every enemy. He had met sin and death. He had met every foe that you and I have got to meet, and had come off victor.
—D. L. Moody
While your sins are as deep as the ocean, the atonement that swallows them up is as deep as eternity, and on the ground of Christ’s atoning death there is pardon to-night for the vilest sinner in Bingley Hall, for the vilest sinner on the face of this earth.
—R. A. Torrey
Cross and crown, death and resurrection, humiliation and exaltation lie on the same line. As Jesus Himself put it after His resurrection: It was necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and so enter His glory (Luke 24:26).
—Herman Bavinck
“The memorial of Christ’s death is a festival, not a funeral.”
“Preach Christ’s life as much as you will, but never apart from his death.
For it is by his blood that we are redeemed.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Without the death of Jesus, nothing remains for us but death.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Christ’s humble birth was but the prelude to a life still more humble, and a death even more abased.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Own thyself guilty of eternal death; and renounce all hope of ever being able to save thyself. Be it all thy hope, to be washed in His blood, and purified by His Spirit, who Himself bore all thy sins in His own body upon the tree.
—John Wesley
Are you tried by your sin?
Jesus rose for your justification.
Does Satan accuse?
Jesus rose to be your advocate.
Do infirmities hinder?
The living Christ will show himself strong on your behalf.
Do you dread death?
Jesus has vanquished the last enemy.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Farewell, thou deadly love of sin; we have done with thee! Farewell, dead world, corrupt world; we have done with thee! Christ has raised us. Christ has given us eternal life.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Lead your life so that you neither fear death nor desire it.
—Leo Tolstoy
“If ye then be risen with Christ ye walk in newness of life, while the world abideth in death.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Never put off a good deed if you can do it now, because death doesn’t take into account whether you’ve done what you should have or not.
—Leo Tolstoy
The death of sin is procured by, and discovered in, the death of Christ
—John Owen
“You have been quickened by God according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenlies.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Oh, my brethren, believers in Jesus, you are not spiritually dead any longer; on Christ you have believed, and that grand act proves that you are no more dead.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“We lay in our death quite unable to raise ourselves therefrom; ours were eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear; a heart that could not love; and a withered hand that could not be stretched out to give the touch of faith.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“For, first, we were dead in trespasses and sins, but having believed in Christ we have been quickened by the Holy Ghost, and we are dead no longer.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The only good human being is a dead one.
—George Orwell
“It is because we are in Christ that we become partakers of everything that Christ,— we are circumcised with him, dead with him, buried with him, risen with him, because we cannot be separated from him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The resurrection of our divine Lord from the dead is the corner-stone of Christian doctrine.”
– Charles Spurgeon
We must be very careful not to mix in our good works at all as the ground of salvation. We are not forgiven because of Christ’s death and our good works, we are forgiven solely because of Christ’s death. 1/2
—R. A. Torrey
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
—Oscar Wilde
“Baptism is a sweet emblem of my death to all the world!
May I, from now on, live only for Jesus!”
— Charles Spurgeon
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die, I have so much I want to do first.
—Stephen Hawking
Trample underfoot the world, and the things of the world; all these riches, honours, pleasures. What is the world to thee? Let the dead bury their dead; but follow thou after the image of God.
—John Wesley
With respect to the death of Christ, there is a great difference betwixt one man and another; he laid down his life for the sheep, he prayed for them, and not for the world.
—John Flavel
The gospel is gospel, good news for all creatures, not a proclamation of destruction and death, but of resurrection and life.
—Herman Bavinck