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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. -- Philip Yancey
From all that dims Thy Calvary, O Lamb of God, deliver me. -- Amy Carmichael
If you want the perfect plan that God has for your life, you will have to go by way of Calvary to get it. -- Billy Graham
If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled. -- Alan Keyes
If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary. -- Alexander MacLaren
The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon one for whom He has died. -- Ellen G. White
If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacrifice of the Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice on Calvary. -- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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. -- Philip Yancey
If I do not give a friend "The benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin. -- Abbott Eliot Kittredge
There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size. -- John Stott
If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted. -- Amy Carmichael
If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the shores of all the world, could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
Mount Calvary is the academy of love. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary? -- Janusz Korczak
The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further. -- Dwight L. Moody
We are to Plunder Hell to Populate Heaven for Calvary's sake -- Reinhard Bonnke
Best love story is not Romeo and Juliet but Jesus at Calvary on the Cross. -- Evans Biya
The unoccupied fields of the world must have their Calvary before they have their Pentecost. -- Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us. -- Robert Baer
Consider the work of Calvary. A perfect work, perfect in every respect, perfect in every aspect -- Derek Prince
It's a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived - Fox is here! -- Glenn Beck
If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love -- Amy Carmichael
There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Come and let the healing, cleansing rays of Calvary play upon your hearts until the very seed of evil is sterilized. -- Stuart Holden
God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary. -- Max Lucado
When it becomes a deep rooted revelation of what Jesus Christ did for you at Calvary, you will never walk away! -- Jerry Savelle
When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee. -- James Montgomery
Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive. -- Charles Spurgeon
I'm very proud of 'Calvary.' It's been doing well; it has legs. It's no easy ride. It packs a punch, this one. -- Brendan Gleeson
At Calvary, there was a great healing transfer where the responsibility for healing was switched from God giving it, to you receiving it. -- Rod Parsley
I do not worship a DEAD and buried Christ at Calvary. I worship a ressurected and LIVING Christ in Heaven! Jesus Christ is alive. -- Israelmore Ayivor
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. -- Oswald Chambers
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. -- Tullian Tchividjian
It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow. -- Miles J. Stanford
Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place -- Tullian Tchividjian
If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.... -- Amy Carmichael
Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual. -- J. I. Packer
If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt. -- Philip Yancey
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. -- C. S. Lewis
Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from selfishness to sacrifice. -- Jon Weber
If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say Just what I expected, if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love. -- Amy Carmichael
If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say â??Just what I expected,â? if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love. -- Amy Carmichael
No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as on that very spot where misery reigned, where woe triumphed, where agony reached its climax. -- Charles Spurgeon
If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
If the praise of man elates me and his blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstanding without defending myself if I love to be loved more than to love...then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin. -- John Stott
I thank the Savior personally; for bearing all which I added to His hemorrhaging at every pore for all humanity in Gethsemane. I thank Him for bearing what I added to the decibels of His piercing soul cry atop Calvary. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory. -- J. C. Ryle
But Jesus, our Advocate, presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith have committed the keeping of their souls to Him.He pleads their cause, and by the mighty arguments of Calvary vanquishes their accuser. -- Ellen G. White
Eucharistic adoration is the greatest of actions. To adore is to share the life of Mary on earth when she adored the Word Incarnate in her virginal womb, when she adored Him in the Crib, on Calvary, in the divine Eucharist -- Peter Julian Eymard
If we want proof of God's love for us, then we must look first at the Cross where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God's love for us. -- Jerry Bridges
One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on Calvary, that Jesus, is waiting, mystically and wonderfully, in every person I meet. I find Jesus everywhere. -- Tony Campolo
I go to a Calvary Chapel church out here in Los Angeles. I had been here about two years at the time. I'm very close with my church, very close with the pastor and his wife, and I work with a girls' ministry here. -- Tiffany Dupont
I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, "My body is my own!" I stand in admiration of women today who resist the "fashion of abortion, by refusing to make the sacred womb a tomb!" -- Neal A. Maxwell
Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to accept this completion without a misgiving as to its efficacy. It listens to the It is finished! of the Sin-bearer, and says, Amen. -- Horatius Bonar
Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. -- Philip Yancey
If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always. -- William Mountford

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