- Sir Robert Anderson
"The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"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."
- T.S. Eliot
"The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood—Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good."
- Phillips Brooks
"We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Savior's crucifixion."
- Nadia Bolz-Weber
"Good Friday is not about us trying to "get right with God." It is about us entering the difference between God and humanity and just touching it for a moment. Touching the shimmering sadness of humanity's insistence that we can be our own gods, that we can be pure and all-powerful."
- John Henry Newman
"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living."
- Martin Luther
"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."
- Brian Zahnd
"The cross is a sign of love. It is not a sign of God's wrath in Jesus, but of his love for us. And the resurrection is a sign of God's love overcoming the power of death and the grave, and transforming us into new life."
- John Stott
"The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough to it for its sparks to fall on us."
- Dean L. Harvey
"The cross is a one time, visual representation of God's grief over sin."
- Leon Morris
"The cross is the victory, the resurrection is the triumph…The resurrection is the public display of the victory, the triumph of the crucified one."
- Billy Graham
"Good Friday is a day of sorrow mingled with joy. It is a time to grieve over the sin of man and to meditate and rejoice upon God's love in giving His only Son for the redemption of sin."
- William Penn
"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."
- William Cowper
"The Cross! There, and there only though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave; There and there only, is the power to save."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified."