“The proclamation of the gospel is still the desperate need of men today. We are never going to reverse the moral trends without a spiritual awakening, and we are never going to have a spiritual awakening until the cross of Jesus Christ is central in all our teaching, preaching and practice.” – Billy Graham

“I never got away from Jesus and Him crucified. And I found that when my people were gripped by this great evangelical doctrine of  Christ and Him crucified, I had no need to give them instructions about morality. I found that one followed as the sure inevitable fruit of the other.” – David Brainerd

“We have been trying for several centuries to uphold a particular standard of ethical values which derives from Christian dogma, while gradually dispensing with the very dogma which is the sole foundation for those values. If we want Christian behavior, then we must realize that Christian behavior is rooted in Christian belief.” – Dorothy Sayers

“There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.” – C. H. Spurgeon