What happened on Good Friday? How is Good Friday celebrated? These amazing Good Friday quotes are from the Good Friday sermons on our sister site SermonCentral.com.
17 Powerful Good Friday Quotes
- “After this, Jesus, knowing that everything had already been fulfilled, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, *said: ‘I thirst.’ There was a jug full of sour wine; So they put a sponge filled with vinegar on a branch of hyssop and put it to his mouth. So when Jesus had taken the vinegar, he said, “It is finished!” And he bowed his head and gave up the spirit. John 19:1-30 (NASV) Tom Shepard on Living Through Hard Times – A Good Friday Meditation Series
2. “Good Friday services are not meant to make you feel good. His goal is to make you reflect on the fact that bad things happen to good people because they do. Bad things happened to Jesus, and they happen to us, and sometimes it doesn’t make sense.” Tom Shepard on Living in Turbulent Times – A Good Friday Meditation Series
3. “The CROSS TRIED the disciples. They were TRAINED by the death of Christ. If he had died by accident or by robbers, they might have accepted it. But him voluntarily SURRENDERING to his enemies just didn’t make sense. His death seemed so absurd, so futile, so wasteful. He could have been prevented, but He chose to die.” From Danny Presswood in The Lamb and the Cross
4. “The disciples had seen Jesus perform many miracles. They had seen him raise people from the dead. They knew that he could have saved himself if he wanted to. But he did not. In fact, he allowed himself to be killed.” From Danny Presswood in The Lamb and the Cross
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5. “The most AMAZING thing about easter story it is not the RESURRECTION OF CHRIST! As truly amazing and miraculous as it was, Jesus promised it would happen! I think the MOST AMAZING thing about the Passover story is the men Jesus entrusted with his Kingdom and his Kingdom work! You see it? Fishermen like Andrew, Peter, James and John. Matthew the tax collector and Simon the fanatic! COMMON MEN. ORDINARY MEN. That is the WONDER of God, that his belief and trust in common men cannot be intimidated or shaken! He believes in us. Jesus believes in US! COMMON MEN! ORDINARY MEN! Teachers, businessmen, construction workers, secretaries, housewives, salespeople, mechanics, white collar workers, blue collar workers, even preachers! Jesus believes that you and I CAN make a DIFFERENCE in the world we live in!” From Danny Presswood in The Lamb and the Cross
6. “Jesus said to the thief: ‘Today you will be with me in paradise.’ This meant that the thief would be with Jesus right then and there after the thief’s repentance and confession. Oh what a glorious day it was for him and what a glorious day it is for you and me. Today is your day?” From Maria Saunders on Listen, It’s Not Too Late, There’s Always Hope!
7. “The message of the cross, although terrible, contains a message of hope for us who benefit from it. Through the power of Christ on the rungs there is forgiveness and a new lease of life for what Jesus accomplished there for us. While the cross is a symbol of painful suffering and torturous death, it is also a symbol of the great compassion of our God.” By Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson on Good Friday
8. “Good Friday was not so good. We like the story of the Conquering King, but we shudder at the thought of a suffering servant. Yet that is what Jesus was: he was our Suffering Servant, before he became our Conquering King.” By Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson on Good Friday
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9. “But there is a man in history whose last words not only tell us a lot about Him, but also tell us a lot about how we should live our lives.” From David Barnes in Famous Last Words
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10. “If Good Friday was all there was, then we as Christians would be the most down and depressing people on Earth. But we know that Good Friday is not the whole story, right? We know there is a Resurrection Sunday. It is a day of victory. We call it Holy Week.” From Tom Shepard on Good Friday: Why?
11. “Every gift has a cost and the Easter Gift was purchased and paid for on Good Friday.” Denn Guptill in The Cost of Good Friday
12. “Good Friday is Good News, especially if we ourselves are experiencing some of the pain and anguish of Good Friday. God knows and God cares. God himself has been there, in Jesus: From Warner Pidgeon on Good News on Friday
13. “The heroes have emblems that identify them (Superman, Batman), I suggest that the cross is the emblem of our faith. . . identifies us with our Christ.” From Mike Fogerson on Good Friday 2016
14. “The genuine existential certainty of God’s love for you dying on the Cross is what allows you to face whatever God wants the outcome to be, whether it be joining Him in heaven.” From Paul Andrew in The Nailing of Jesus
15. “Christ’s death on the cross has the power to forgive our sins and grant us salvation. By the stripes of Jesus we are healed of our sicknesses and diseases. By his death on the cross we are delivered from the scourge of curses and receive God’s blessings. We receive comfort in all our sorrows because He bore our sorrows and pains on the cross.” Claude Alexander in What Jesus Accomplished on the Cross
16. “And because of Jesus’ death on the Cross, for our salvation, we can now take our stand: don’t betray Jesus, don’t deny him, don’t judge him, don’t condemn him, don’t reject him, don’t mock him, don’t curse him, don’t flog him, not kill him himself, but standing there at the foot of the cross with others who love him, and holding each other to comfort and strengthen us, so that when they ask us later what happened, we can say, ‘I was standing at foot of the Cross…” By Kenneth Sauer in All is finished
17. “Today we are filled with the harsh reality that the cross is a symbol of death, death that was meant for us. At Easter, we see the joyous glory that the cross is a symbol of hope as we walk the path of life.” From Tim Zingale on Good Friday”
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18. “See again his great love for you today, child of God. He paid the price so that you would never have to be punished before a holy God. The very Son of God died for your sins, every wrong thought, action, deed. Imagine a room full of candles and as each one is extinguished, see the last one glimmering in the room: the Son of God there dying for this dark and wicked world. Then his light goes out. He has died for you and me. He carries these thoughts in you today, reflect on this amazing sacrifice of God himself. Feel the pain and wounds of the One who did such a thing for you and me.” By Greg Gordon in A Good Friday Meditation
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