Lenten Quotes, Day 40

Each Lent should mark a higher level of spiritual life. Each Lent should find us better equipped, when it is over, to keep our baptismal vow, to fight manfully under Christ’s banner, against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue His faithful soldier and servant to our life’s end. –Joseph M. Francis

“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.” C. H. Spurgeon

“We live and die: Christ died and lived!” John R.W. Stott

“Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.” Soren Kierkegaard

“The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation.” C. H. Spurgeon

{Thanks to George Grant for the latter quotes }