Quotes About Cross

Jewellery's not a big thing for me. The only thing I wear is a gold cross on a chain that I got for my 21st birthday. You have to take it off every day for filming, but that's the only time I'm not wearing it. You won't find me in rings, bracelets or earrings.

I don't want the books to become PR exercises for the police; I want to have the freedom to write about cops who cross the line: bad cops.

The Cross Border Xpress and improvements to the San Ysidro Port of Entry are making the flow of goods and services faster, easier and more efficient than ever.

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

Fans in Brazil cross the line. A few times at Fluminense, the fans would go to the airport after we had played away to shout at us.

Without the cross the Discipline of confession would be only psychologically therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective change in our relationship with God and a subjective change in us. It is a means of healing and transforming the inner spirit.

Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.

The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.

He tilted his head to the side, still watching me in that same, disconcerting way. "Some things are true, drunk or sober. You should know that. You deal in facts all the time." "Yeah, but this isn't—" I couldn't argue with him looking at me like that. "I have to go. Wait… you didn't take the cross." I held it out to him. He shook his head. "Keep it. I think I've got something else to help center my life.

Sometimes," I told her, "I still don't. It goes against every rule of the universe." To my surprise, she touched the small gold cross around her neck. "Some rules are bigger than the universe.

Si quieres saber cuán importante eres para Dios, mira a Cristo con sus brazos extendidos en la cruz, diciéndote: «¡Mi amor es así de grande! Prefiero morir a vivir sin ti».

This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us of God's suffering, God's pain, God's broken heart. It's God making the first move and then waiting for our response.

I dreamed I called D.A.F. de Sade on the phone and asked him, Jesus told me that he and you agree on at least one thing and it explains freedom. What is that one thing? Quite simple, he replied, don't be afraid of the Cross. The fear of death is the beginning of slavery. And the line went dead with a triumphant click like a barred door falling open.

Christ did not die merely to display God's love -- He died because God is love. (I John 4:8)

I'm heir to madness. Vessel of perversion. Your nightmare should you cross me. Daryl's chin lifted, trembling. Indeed. We might be sisters then, for I'm the same.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.

When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.

There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.

If the thunder is not loud the peasant forgets to cross himself.

I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

Because I am special. For the moment that was all she had to say. There would be more, much more, but the four words were like four candles, or the arms of the Crusaders' cross she wore on her sleeve. Because I am special. She shut the book and began to blow out the candle, before changing her mind. She sat back in her chair, and watched it glow.