Quotes About Cross

Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.

Woman, last at the cross, and earliest at the grave.

Sometimes it's the ones who claim they're progressive who are the worst, because they act like they are the very boundary between the possible and the impossible, and they never let you cross them.

I recollect not a single passage in all the writings ascribed to the men called apostles, that conveys any idea of what God is. Those writings are chiefly controversial; and the subjects they dwell upon, that of a man dying in agony on a cross, is better suited to the gloomy genius of a monk in a cell, by whom it is not impossible they were written, than to any man breathing the open air of the Creation.

King's crowns are only crosses, but the cross of Christ is the only crown.

Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor.

La historia del cristianismo en su totalidad, y la historia del mundo como un todo, habrían seguido un curso muy distinto de no haberse transmutado de forma continua la teología de la cruz en teología de gloria, pasando así a ser la iglesia de la cruz una iglesia de gloria'.

The battered old DC 3 lay at the end of the runway like a tiny silver cross.

This house has been my cross to bear," she was fond of saying. She had come to see her staying on amongst the "riffraff" as the will of God. He had placed her here as a model of clean Catholic living. She was not obliged to speak to any of her neighbors, only to offer them her good example.

Romanticism yearns for deliverance from the cross of the Here and Now: it is willing to face anything but the facts.

Many Christians are unaware how drastically the cross must work so that ultimately their natural power for living may be denied.

Emotion must go through the cross (Matt. 10.38-39) in order to destroy its fiery nature, with its confusion, and to subject it totally to the spirit. The cross aims to accord the spirit authority to rule over every activity of emotion.

The only thing that makes reality is death; then they hang it on a cross, kneel down and pray to it.

Beyond the ephemeral and the dark stands "a sign from eternity, solemn and mighty, bathed in the radiance of the divine sun of grace and light—the cross. And there [God] hangs, his arms outstretched as if to embrace the entire world in love."42

Indifference is the curse of this age. We need to hear that. Indifference is evil, and it could not be further from the heart of God. Don't think so? Let me point you to the Cross. Hanging there, Jesus was anything but indifferent. Don't think I've somehow got a handle

Indifference is the curse of this age. We need to hear that. Indifference is evil, and it could not be further from the heart of God. Don't think so? Let me point you to the Cross. Hanging there, Jesus was anything but indifferent.

he had been a guest of honor in many pubs, and even the beloved Paul McCartney had once bought him a pint.

9 "There are Christians who want to be more spiritual than God himself. They like to talk of battle, renunciation, suffering, and the cross, and it is almost painful to them that the holy scripture speaks not only of that, but time and again of the good fortune of the devout, the well-being of the just." —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

God proved his love on the cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, "I love you.

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

The first thing the Cross does is cross out the world's word by a Wholly-Other Word, a Word that the world does not want to hear at any price. For the world wants to live and rise again before it dies, while the love of Christ wants to die in order to rise again in the form of God on the other side of death, indeed, IN death.

Maximus expressly says that the Incarnation—more precisely, the drama of Cross, grave, and Resurrection—is not only the midpoint of world history but the foundational idea of the world itself.

El creyente vive desde la resurrección (a la que fundamentalmente le ha conducido el bautismo) mirando a la cruz, pero vive también desde un estado de crucifixión cotidiana con la mirada puesta en la resurrección.