Quotes About Cross

The eighth-century icon now at St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai was one of the earliest to show Christ upon the cross with his eyes closed.

The apse of Rome's Basilica of Santa Pudenziana contains the oldest surviving example of a golden, gemmed cross in mosaic. This church, known up to the sixth century as the Titulus Pudentis, was reconstructed at the end of the fourth century. Its apse mosaic—the earliest extant in any Roman church—was installed during the papacy of Innocent I (402–417).

What makes this particularly remarkable is the link between the object and the text. The poem speaks in the first-person voice of the cross and, in this case, the actual stone cross voices its own story (albeit in carved runes).

He did not seem like a fallen angel now. His spell had stopped. He seemed like a professor who had forgotten the theme of his lecture, while the class waits. For Morano was holding up the sign of the cross. You have betrayed me! shouted the Slave of Orion. Master, Morano said, it was always good against magic.

I once wrote a suicide story: A woman watches a truck bearing down toward the place on the sidewalk where she stands waiting to cross. She thinks, 'If that truck were to run me over I wouldn't have to think what to get for supper.' The truck passes. The woman crosses to the supermarket and takes out her shopping list. It was called 'Truck.

There is nothing to unify God and the soul but the Cross.

We mountain boys were all walkers. Mostly it was the fastest way to get ary place back in the hills, for often a boy could cross a mountain afoot where no horse could go . . .

On such a languid afternoon how hard it seemed to bear a cross! Pleasant to tilt it a little - lean it for an instant against somebody else.

One of the reasons we come to feel guilty is that we move away from the cross and a desire to please God and live instead for the approval of others. Families have rules, our culture has rules, and the church often has hidden agendas. Our society encourages us to be successful, but if we live by a success/failure model rather than under the authority of Christ, we wound our consciences.

Now the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross was not only to bring men back into fellowship with God, but also into fellowship with their fellow men. Indeed

Our whole Christian life is a dying to selfishness – wasn't it Monsignor Knox who said the cross was "I" crossed out?

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child's hobby-horse and trumpet.

It is You Jesus, stretched out on the cross, who gives me strength and are always close to the suffering soul. Creatures will abandon a person in his suffering, but You, O Lord, are faithful.

The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.

Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

The reckless open their arms and topple into love, as do dreamers, who fly in their dreams without fear or danger. Those who know that all love must end in loss do not fall but rather cross slowly from the not knowing into the knowing.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from selfishness to sacrifice.

If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings.

The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.

Jesus was treated on the cross as if He lived our life, so by grace we could be treated as if we lived His life. Hallelujah what a Savior!

In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.