Believer in Jesus, can you gaze upon him without tears, as he stands
before you the mirror of agonizing love? He is at once fair as the lily
for innocence, and red as the rose with the crimson of his own blood. As
we feel the sure and blessed healing which his stripes have wrought in us,
does not our heart melt at once with love and grief? If ever we have loved
our Lord Jesus, surely we must feel that affection glowing now within our
bosoms.

SPURGEON