Good Friday: two quotations

... essentially what happened was that the human race came face to face with its Creator and its response was to seek to destroy him.

That utterly crucial and central moment in universal history is the ground on which we are compelled to say that all of us, the good and bad together, are sinners…

It is at that point where we are judged and condemned without distinction. The cross cannot be used as a banner for one part of humanity against another. It is the place where we are all, without distinction, unmasked as the enemies of God. But it is also the place where to all, without distinction, there is offered the unlimited kindness and love of God.

(Lesslie Newbigin, Discovering Truth in a Changing World, p. 66, as cited in Michael Lloyd, Café Theology, pp. 161-2.)


If Jesus Christ be God, and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for him.

(C.T. Studd, England cricketer and missionary)