"To the godly heart there is a brighter light on Calvary than anywhere
else beneath the sun. He who often resorts to Golgotha,--- It is the University of Saints.
*He who would know
sin—its heinousness, its penalty—must see 
the Son of God making
expiation for it by His death on the accursed tree.
He who would know how he may have his sin forgiven, must resort to the cross.
*And he who, finding pardon there, would seek to be useful to his fellow
men and bring them into the same condition, must keep himself near that
cross.....Listening to the voice of our Lord in this plaintive cry of His, “Father,
forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” (Luke 23:34).
What love is this!
*One would suppose that the pain which He then felt
might have distracted His mind from others, and his prayer might have
been for Himself, that patience might be given, that strength might be
sustained; but no, oblivious of Himself,
His only care is still for
those He seeks—the sinful sons of men."
Charles Spurgeon
