When you’re tempted to doubt God’s love for you, stand before the cross and look at the wounded, dying, disfigured Savior, and realize why He is there. I believe His Father would whsper to us, ‘Isn’t this sufficient? I haven’t spared My own Son; I deformed and disfigured and crushed Him – for you. What more could I do to persuade you that I love you?’

-C.J. Mahaney, Living the Cross Centered Life (Sisters, Oregon: Mulnomah Books, 2006), 56.