Good Friday Quotes

“Deogracias Iniguez”

“[just a] show. The spiritual dimension is totally lost.”

“Wikipedia: Good Friday”

“Jesus Christ died at 3 p.m. on the Good Friday, April 3, 33AD and rose again at 4 a.m. on April 5.”

“It is painful and difficult. But I will continue doing this for as long as I can. This is my pledge to God.”

“The Church does not recommend it, because the Church is against self-flagellation. But we cannot question somebody's faith.”

“The Good Friday Quotes For your Family & Friends.”

“This Good Friday, help me Lord to become a humble and loving person, just like you. Make me more like you Jesus so that I may lead others to you. Amen”

“Ironically, the soldiers who crucified Jesus then gambled for his clothes. But Jesus said, 'Father forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing'.”

“Since that day it has never been quite enough to say that God is his heaven and all is right with the world; since the rumour that God had left his heavens to set it right.”

“The Church of England associates them with Good Friday, that day when the symbolism of the cross is all important. But you can find some references to them being eaten during Lent.”

“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.”

“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible, it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.”

“To allow gambling and encourage avarice on Good Friday, when we are remembering the sacrifice Jesus made for the world, is particularly regrettable.”

“So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty to Him in the days of His darkness, for the time when we shall enter into His triumph in the days of His light.”

“Dozens of people were nailed to crosses in the devoutly Roman Catholic Philippines on Good Friday, in a gruesome re-enactment of the crucifixion, while others atoned for their sins by flaying themselves with bamboo whips or paddles tipped with broken glass.”

“Holy and Great Friday is observed as a strict fast, and adult Byzantine Christians are expected to abstain from all food and drink the entire day to the extent that their health permits.”

“"A Limerick on New Hot Cross Buns with Tick (Check Mark)" by Paul A. Freeman, The Society of Classical Poets (March 23, 2024)”

“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.”

“You have got the bread, as per the communion, you have got the spices that represent the spices Jesus was wrapped in in the tomb, and you have got the cross. They are fairly full of Christian symbolism.”