How Christ’s death takes away thy sins thou wilt never know on earth-perhaps not in heaven. It is a mystery which thou must believe and adore. But why He died, thou canst see at the first glance, if thou hast a human heart and wilt look at what God means thee to look at-Christ upon His Cross. He died because He was love-love itself-love boundless, unconquerable, unchangeable-love which inhabits eternity, and therefore could not be hardened or foiled by any sin or rebellion of man, but must love men still; must go out to seek and save them; must dare, suffer any misery, shame, death itself, for their sake; just because it is absolute and prefect Love which inhabits eternity.
Charles Kingsley[1]
[1] Charles Kingsley, The Good News of God (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1908), 321-322.