Top 30 Good Friday Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’”

— Billy Graham

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2. “Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

— Charles Studd

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3. “The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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4. “Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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5. “Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.”

— Ellen G. White

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6. “Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.”

— Ravi Zacharias

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7. “Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.”

— Pope John Paul II

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8. “The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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9. “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

— C. S. Lewis

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10. “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”

— Paul the Apostle

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11. “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

— C. S. Lewis

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12. “Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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13. “The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.”

— Timothy Keller

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14. “If God is for us, who can be against us?”

— Paul the Apostle

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15. “Without Christ there is no hope.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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16. “If Christ be anything, He must be everything.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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17. “The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.”

— Timothy Keller

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18. “Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.”

— John Piper

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19. “Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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20. “Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus – a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”

— Mother Teresa

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21. “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”

— John the Baptist

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22. “Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.”

— Mother Teresa

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23. “When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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24. “Trust yourself in God’s hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. ‘Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.’”

— Oswald Chambers

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25. “Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.”

— Rick Warren

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26. “Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.”

— Pope Francis

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27. “God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.”

— Jim Elliot

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28. “Don’t undervalue yourself. God loves you. Your worth is what you are worth to God. Jesus died for you. You are of infinite value.”

— Nicky Gumbel

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29. “For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

— Ignatius of Loyola

30. “I heard the voice of Jesus say.”

— Horatius Bonar

31. “The purpose of the Lord’s Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.”

— John Piper

32. “Let us build our lives of faith on the rock who is Christ.”

— Pope Francis

33. “Confession is an act of honesty and courage – an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.”

— Pope John Paul II

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34. “May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.”

— John Newton