“God remits our sins and accepts our persons into favor not because of any
amends we have attempted, but because they penalty that was our due
was diverted to Christ. Jesus Christ our Lord, moved by a love that was
determined to do everything necessary to save us, endured and exhausted
the destructive divine judgment for which we were inescapably destined,
and so won for us forgiveness, adoption and glory. To affirm penal
substitution is to say that believers are in debt to Christ specifically for this,
and that this is the mainspring of all their joy, peace and praise both now
and for eternity.”
-J.I. Packer

“In order to save us in such a way as to satisfy Himself, God through Christ
substituted Himself for us. Divine love triumphed over divine wrath by
divine self-sacrifice. The cross was an act simultaneously of punishment
and amnesty, severity and grace, justice and mercy…Divine self-
satisfaction through divine self-substitution.”
-John Stott

“Many, many facets of the Servant’s character are revealed in this Song.
He is sage, priest, sacrifice, servant, sufferer, conqueror and intercessor.
He is the channel of God’s grace to sinners. In him the holiness and mercy
of God are perfectly reconciled. He is the key to all God’s plans for his
people and for the world.”
-Peter Adam