Calvin on Jesus' Sacrifice

The Awareness of God's Wrath Makes Us Thankful for His Loving Act in Christ
"For if it had not been clearly stated that the wrath and vengeance of God and eternal death rested upon us, we would scarcely have recognized how miserable we would have been without God's mercy, and we would have underestimated the benefit of liberation."

God's Wrath Against Unrighteousness; His Love Precedes Our Reconciliation In Christ
"For God, who is the highest righteousness, cannot love the unrighteousness that he see in us all. All of us, therefore, have in ourselves something deserving of God's hatred. With regard to our corrupt nature and the wicked life that follows it, all of us surely displease God, are guilty in his sight, and are born to the damnation of hell. But because the Lord wills not to lose what is his in us, out of his own kindness he still finds something to love. However much we may be sinners by our own fault, we nevertheless remain his creatures. However much we have brought death upon ourselves, yet he has created us unto life. Thus he is moved by pure and freely given love of us to receive us into grace. Since there is a perpetual and irreconcilable disagreement between righteousness and unrighteousness, so long as we remain sinners he cannot receive us completely. Therefore, to take away all cause for enmity and to reconcile us utterly to himself, he wipes out all evil in us by the expiation set forth in the death of Christ; that we, who were previously unclean and impure, may show ourselves righteous and holy in his sight."

Christ Has Redeemed Us Through His Obedience, Which He Practiced Throughout His Life
"And here was no common evidence of his incomparable love toward us: to wrestle with terrible fear, and amid those cruel torments to cast off all concern for himself that he might provide for us. And we must hold fast to this: that no proper sacrifice to God could have been offered unless Christ disregarding his own feelings, subjected and yielded himself wholly to his Father's will."

The Condemnation of Jesus Through Pilate
"But when he was arraigned before the judgment seat [of Pilate] as a criminal, accused and pressed by testimony, and condemned by the mouth of the judge to die - we know by these proofs that he took the role of a guilty man and evildoer."

That guilty man was me.