Quotes About Cross

To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

Loyalty to Christ may produce a cross on earth, but it brings a crown in eternity.

He [Christ] climbs the tree to repay what was stolen, as if he was putting the apple back; but the phrase in itself implies rather that he is doing the stealing ... Either he stole on behalf of man ... or he is climbing upwards like Jack on the Beanstalk, and taking his people with him back to heaven. The phrase has an odd humility which makes us see him as the son of the house; possibly Herbert is drawing on the medieval tradition that the Cross was made of the wood of the forbidden trees.

Prayer is a great heart?easer; it breathes out those distempered passions which, being bound up in others, break out when God at any time crosseth them in their wills.

Christ did not redeem and save poor souls by sitting in majesty on his heavenly throne, but by hanging on the shameful cross, under the tormenting hand of man's fury and God's just wrath.

"Harmony, accordingly, has been restored. Peace was made. Through Christ and his cross the universe is brought back or restored to its proper relationship to God in the sense that as a just reward for his obedience Christ was exalted to the Father's right hand, from which position of authority and power He rules the entire universe in the interest of the church and to the glory of God." (on Colossians 1:20)

the word "avatar" comes from the Sanskrit noun avat?ra derived from a verbal root that means to "cross over". Jake's avatar is what enables him to "cross over" from the mortal world to the sublime universe of Pandora

Todo lo que este mundo le dio a nuestro Señor fue una cruz y una tumba. Ofrecer

If two direction-finders take bearings like that on a signal and a control center draws the lines of direction on a map, the point at which they cross marks the position of the transmitter.

Too much "evangelistic preaching".... comes out as "a God without wrath bringing men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross - The Evangelism Mandate, David Larsen pg. 35

Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker.

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

The greatest adventure in life - knowing God - begins at the Cross of Christ and ends with a "Hallelujah!"

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God's justice.