Quotes About Crosses

Now, shouts of "Dieu li volt!" (God wills it!) began to spread through the crowd, and men began to cut up cloaks and other pieces of cloth to make crosses and sew them against their chests. Everyone agreed that the next year they would set out for the Holy Land. And they did.

He said, "There's a sermon of John Donne's I have often had cause to remember during my lifetime. He says, Other men's crosses are not my crosses. We all have our own cross to carry, and one is all most of us are able to bear. How much do you owe him, Vicky?

Crosses?" "Definitely" "Why?" "Because they're evil, soulless, bloodsucking fiends?" "So was my sixth-grade gym teacher, but he wasn't afraid of a cross.

The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.

One way is to seek the point where the path directed by our greatest bliss crosses that directed by the world's greatest need—that is, what it is willing to pay for.

This time the Empress was supposed to have asked the celebrated healer and pretender to miraculous powers, John Joseph Gassner: "Will my daughter be happy?" His reply was suitably gnomic: "There are crosses for all shoulders." 3

Who gives his life to duty Will hardships ever find, And many, many crosses, And roads that devious wind. Awaiting him seems Pleasure At every turn of road; But Duty stands as sentinel, With lash and whip to goad.

Again, he that feareth pains and crosses in this world, feareth some of those things which some time or other must needs happen in the world.

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.

There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it's time to move forward.

In the post-Cold War world flags count and so do other symbols of cultural identity, including crosses, crescents, and even head coverings, because culture counts, and cultural identity is what is most meaningful to most people.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

She hands him his coffee; crosses to the doorway; motes of dust flutter nervously in her wake.

It was a striking reminder that they all bore crosses when it came to their respective careers, some heavier than others.

Los cien enamorados duermen para siempre bajo la tiera seca. Andalucía tiene largos caminos rojos. Córdoba, olivos verdes donde poner cien cruces, que los recuerden. Los cien enamorados duermen para siempre.

I have a natural connection with Romelu. We stay most days after training and meet up to practice my crosses and him getting on the end of them. He is a top player, and he takes up the best positions for an old-fashioned winger like myself.

By definition, transnational crime crosses borders, but efforts to combat it mostly do not.

On crosses, sometimes I make my move one or two seconds before the ball is coming because I'm trying to guess that the ball is coming there. It's intuition. So I run. Sometimes the ball comes...sometimes not. But that intuition is working.

God is always active in our lives. He always calls, he always asks us to take up our crosses and follow him. But do we see, feel, and recognize God's call, or do we keep waiting for that illusory moment when it will really happen? Displacement is not primarily something to do or to accomplish but something to recognize.

Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.

Love pushes boundaries and crosses every line you weren't meant to cross.