Quotes About Cross

We cannot deal with the power of sin unless we have first dealt with its guilt. And we deal with it at the cross.

to see God solely as love is to overlook the beauty and the purpose of the cross.

All that Christ did in both His life and death, He did in our place as our substitute.

Any admonition that declares that we must rule should be checked with the immediate reminder that Christ did not. It is the cross—not the boardroom, not the Oval Office, and not the box office—that is the absolute center of the Kingdom of God.

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.

The Host and the Chalice upon the alter plead before God on our behalf just as our Lord sacrificed on the Cross pleaded for us on Good Friday because it is identically the same sacrifice which is renewed on our alters in an unbloody manner.

People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room Now everything is cross marketing. It's about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs. You choose.

We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.

Man, Amy Ryan. I have geeked out so hard for her - to her face! There aren't a lot of people that can cross those lines of drama and comedy so seamlessly as Amy Ryan.

If you want to see what Christ looks like, look at those who participate in him in the most dramatic way," he says. "It's the Cross, participation in the Cross. It's conforming to Christ, it's Christ appearing vividly in our midst.

by Him to reconcile all things to Himself . . .having made peace through the blood of His cross. – Colossians 1:20

But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. – Galatians 6:14

The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. – 1 Corinthians 1:18

I am coming to the cross; I am poor and weak and blind; I am counting all but dross; I shall full salvation find. Long my heart has sighed for Thee; Long has evil reigned within; Jesus sweetly speaks to me: "I will cleanse you from all sin." Here I give my all to Thee: Friends and time and earthly store; Soul and body Thine to be, Wholly Thine forevermore. I am trusting, Lord, in Thee. Blessèd Lamb of Calvary; Humbly at Thy cross I bow. Save me, Jesus, save me now.

At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light, And the burden of my heart rolled away, It was there by faith I received my sight, And now I am happy all the day!

Upon that cross of Jesus mine eye at times can see The very dying form of One who suffered there for me; And from my stricken heart with tears two wonders I confess – The wonders of redeeming love and my unworthiness.

Never should the atonement be represented so as to suggest that it was the Father who hated the sinner, that it was the Son who loved the sinner, and that his cross work won the Father over to clemency or extorted the Father's gracious attitude toward the sinner from him against his will.

Someone says, I thought He [Jesus] went to Hell and suffered an additional three days and three nights." Then you thought wrong. His testimony is that His vicarious atonement was completed on the cross, finished forever. We will not quote them again here, but go back and reread Hebrews 9, especially verses 25, 26 and 28. Our Lord will not offer up Himself again. Nor can anyone else offer Him.

By the mid to late fourth century, a cross surmounted by a christogram began to signify Christ's conquest of death, a triumph that would be ultimately shared by his faithful followers. Before long, the christogram was a popular decoration for a Christian tomb, supplanting the praying figure and the dove as a symbol of hope.1 In time, the christogram itself was displaced as the cross emerged to become the primary symbol of the Christian faith.

However one evaluates the character of Constantine's conversion, he clearly believed that the Christian God was his ally. Thus the cross, or its counterpart, the christogram, became a trophy of victory, not only over demonic foes but also over ordinary human ones.

Under the direction of the patriarch Niketas (741–775), iconoclasts removed figurative portraits (probably saints' busts) from the council hall of the church of Hagia Sophia and replaced them with plain crosses.31 Already, by 743, Constantine V had rebuilt the earthquake-damaged church of Hagia Eirene and ordered its apse decorated with a simple, unadorned cross. Somewhat surprisingly, this cross has remained its sole decoration to this day.

The false assumptions, fake barriers and untruthful worldview he absorbed from those around him taught him to speak like a powerless victim. To see prison bars that were not there, sort of like when a dog who had an invisible fence around its yard has that fence taken away, yet still won't cross the border.

To use a popular illustration, all other religions are spelled "D-O." That is, they are based on people doing something, through their struggling and striving, to somehow earn the good favor of God. [...] By contrast, Christianity is spelled "D-O-N-E," because it's based on what Jesus Christ has done for us on the cross.

The idea that Jesus never really died on the cross can be found in the Koran, which was written in the seventh century--in fact, Ahmadiyya Muslims contend that Jesus actually fled to India. To this day there's a shrine that supposedly marks his real burial place in Srinagar, Kashmir.