Quotes About Cross

He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross. (Colossians 2:14–15)

There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines

Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together.

With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together.

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

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

The Latin Cross is not inappropriate for a church that composed itself entirely of men, for in several early societies the Latin Cross was a primary phallic symbol.

You have forgotten the doctrine of your own church, is it not so? The cross…the bread and wine…the confessional…only symbols. Without faith, the cross is only wood, the bread baked wheat, the wine sour grapes.

In the thought world Mark creates, the apocalyptic Son of Man who is about to appear in glory (13: 24–31) is the same as the Son of Man who came forty years earlier to die on the cross (8: 31, 38; 9: 9–13, 31).

If forgiveness is nothing more than a rearranging of our feelings, we have no defense against this. But if forgiveness is a formal process of sending sins and wrongs away from us and placing them upon Jesus on the cross, we have a barrier between us and the darkness that tries to come back in.

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did.

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.

Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.

Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested when He prayed for His enemies on the cross.

In the manger God loves you; through the cross God saves you. But has he taken you to his home? Not yet.

In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.

At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater-the love of God.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.