The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship. -Martin Luther
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Jesus is so familiar
Jesus is so familiar with your pain that he literally became it. -Judah Smith
The cross stands as a reminder
The cross stands as a reminder that God, in grace, takes very bad things and turns them into very good things. -Paul Tripp
Christ not only died
Christ not only died a “cross-death,” He lived a “cross-life.” – Richard Foster
While others are congratulating themselves
While others are congratulating themselves, I have to sit humbly at the foot of the cross and marvel that I’m saved at all. – Charles Spurgeon
The cross is the quickest way
The cross is the quickest and best summary of what God says to unworthy people. – Ed Welch
