Let us freely confess that, like Barabbas, we deserve death, judgment, and hell. But let us cling firmly to the glorious truth that a sinless Saviour has suffered in our place, and that believing in him the guilty may go free.
J. C. Ryle
1377If you put a away the doctrine of the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ, you have disembowelled the gospel, and torn from it its very heart.—23.571