30 Good Friday Quotes About Faith And Hope

Good Friday is a Christian holy day commemorating Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and His gift of everlasting life through faith in Him. Jesus willingly died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins on Good Friday.

We remind ourselves of the glad news of salvation. Good Friday is observed on the Friday before Easter Sunday and is typically a day of fasting, prayer, and reflection for Christians. Many churches hold special services or processions on this day, and it is also a public holiday in some countries.

What does Good Friday mean?

Good Friday is a holiday with a history in the Christian faith. It celebrates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and is based on the notion that Calvary is where he was crucified. Good Friday mainly reflects on what Christ has done for his disciples.

When is Good Friday 2024?

Every year, Good Friday has a different calendar date. Instead, it always occurs on the Friday before Easter. In 2024, Good Friday will fall on Friday, 29 March 2024.

Good Friday Quotes

• ” God hold us to that which drew us first when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.” ( Amy Carmichael )

• ” It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father’s will—and it was his love for sinners like me.” ( D.A. Carson )

• ” The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness, it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.” ( R. C. Sproul )

• ” 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 )

• ” 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 Saviour’s crucifixion.” ( Phillips Brooks )

• ” He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds, you have been healed.” (1 Peter 2:24 )

• ” It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things; but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.” ( C. S. Lewis )

• ” But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. ” ( Galatians 6:14 )

• ” No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.” ( William Penn )

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

• ” The way of the cross is the way of suffering. Christians are called to die, not kill, in order to show the world how they are loved by Christ.” ( John Piper )

• ” He drained the cup of God’s wrath bone dry, leaving not a drop for us to drink. ( Richard Allen Bodey )

• ” By the cross, we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons! ( Frederic William Farrar )

• ” I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ to me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.” ( Mother Teresa )

• ” All of heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, hell afraid of it, while men are the only ones to ignore its meaning. ( Oswald Chambers )

• ” The beauty of the cross and our crucified Lord cannot be easily fathomed by the human mind or by barely reading scriptures in bits but by a careful reading of entire scripture in the spirit which will, in turn, engulf one with wisdom and love.” ( Henrietta Newton Martin )

• ” 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.” ( Leon Morris )

• ” The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.” ( Dietrich Bonhoeffer )

• ” He drained the cup of God’s wrath bone dry, leaving not a drop for us to drink” ( Richard Allen Bodey )

• ” 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.” ( T.S. Eliot )

• ” Mercy, peace, and love. May the grace and Lord surround and be with you on Good Friday.” ( Unknown)

• ” It was inevitable that Jesus Christ should be crucified. It was also inevitable that He should rise again.” ( H. R. L. Sheppard )

• ” Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.” (Watchman Nee)

• ” The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope or at least give it 48 hours” ( Robert Breault )

• ” And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.” ( Mark 8:31 )

• ” Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love, and at this hour millions of men would die for Him. ( Napoleon Bonaparte )

• ” By the cross, we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!” ( Frederic William Farrar )

• ” It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.” ( Ravi Zacharias )

• ” Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.” ( Craig D. Lounsbrough )

• ” For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.” ( John 3:16-17 )