By A.W. Tozer
“The work of Christ on the cross did not influence God to love us,
did not increase that love by one degree, did not open any fount of
grace or mercy in His heart. He had loved us from old eternity and
needed nothing to stimulate that love. The cross is not responsible for
God's love; rather it was His love which conceived the cross as the one
method by which we could be saved. God felt no different toward us after
Christ had died for us, for in the mind of God Christ had already died
before the foundation of the world. God never saw us except through
atonement. The human race could not have existed one day in its fallen
state had not Christ spread His mantle of atonement over it. And this He
did in eternal purpose long ages before they led Him out to die on the
hill above Jerusalem. All God's dealings with man have been conditioned
upon the cross.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Radical Cross: Living the Passion of Christ
― A.W. Tozer, The Radical Cross: Living the Passion of Christ
