The Cross Quotes

“there is one place in all history and in the whole of the universe where you see the immutability and the unchangeableness of God more clearly than anywhere else, it is on the cross. Suffering there is his own Son. Is he going to change, is he going to modify? No, he sees what must be done, and he does it. God says that he is going to punish sin. And when even his own Son makes himself the representative of sinners, he carries out his word. He does not modify it, even though it is his own Son. Oh, the immutability”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Cross: God's Way of Salvation

“All that leads, of course, to being sensitive, seeing insults where they are not meant, and where indeed they very often do not exist. Hyper-sensitive. Always afraid somebody is going to detract from us. Feeling somebody is trying to do so. Feeling hurt, feeling wounded. And that in turn leads to self-protection. Self-protectiveness. We spend a lot of our time protecting ourselves, even trying to avoid the possibility of something that might harm us. It becomes quite a great business, always protecting this delicate, hypersensitive self at the centre.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Cross: God's Way of Salvation

“one of the most wonderful things that the cross of Christ does to a man who knows its meaning and understands what happened there, is that it delivers him from himself; and this is one of the most glorious deliverances a man can ever know, to be free and delivered from himself.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Cross: God's Way of Salvation