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Quotes About Crucify

The hero of yesterday becomes the tyrant of tomorrow, unless he crucifies himself today.
~ Joseph Campbell
I get enough of crowds even when they're happy... if they're scared they're either going to crucify somebody or worship him
~ Richard Bach
We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold
~ William Jennings Bryan
It is the egoic illusion of our own perfect rightness that often allows us to crucify others.
~ Richard Rohr
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
~ Robert Burton
They crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
~ Anonymous
Promise me, Amelie, that you'll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.""I hardly think there's any chance of that, " Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.
~ Rachel Caine, Ghost Town
The afflictions of the wicked exasperate them, enrage them, stone and pave them, obdurate and petrify them, but they do not crucify them. The afflictions of the godly crucify them. And when I am come to that conformity with my Saviour, as to fulfill his sufferings in my fiesh, (as I am, when I glorify him in a Christian constancy and cheerfulness in my afflictions) then I am crucified with him, carried up to his cross...
~ John Donne
The afflictions of the wicked exasperate them, enrage them, stone and pave them, obdurate and petrify them, but they do not crucify them. The afflictions of the godly crucify them. And when I am come to that conformity with my Saviour, as to fulfill his sufferings in my flesh, (as I am, when I glorify him in a Christian constancy and cheerfulness in my afflictions) then I am crucified with him, carried up to his cross...
~ John Donne
And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist it, deny it, crucify it finally, which we do again and again. This is our terrible freedom, which love refuses to overpower so that, in this, the greatest of all powers, God's power, is itself powerless.
~ Frederick Buechner
I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier to be furious than to be yearning. Easier to crucify myself in you than to take on the threatening universe of whiteness by admitting that we are worth wanting each other.
~ Audre Lorde
We'll crucify the insincere tonight
~ Billy Corgan
When you and I became born again, God became our Father. He is a love God. We are love children of a love God, because we have been born of God, and God is love. The nature of God in us is love. We have His nature in our spirit, not in our flesh. (We've got the flesh to contend with, but we can "crucify" it.) And
~ Kenneth E. Hagin
They write romantic songs about men who are wanderers. Women they crucify." "She
~ Georgia Bockoven
When I told her we were going to roast her, she said, "Of course, . . . they only crucify the innocent."
~ Anonymous
The mass," Goldman wrote bitterly, echoing Marx, "clings to its masters, loves the whip, and is the first to cry Crucify!"23
~ Chris Hedges
If Jesus returned today we would have to crucify him quick in our own defense, to justify and preserve the civilization we have worked and suffered and died shrieking and cursing in rage and impotence and terror for two thousand years to create and perfect in mans own image; if Venus returned she would be a soiled man in a subway lavatory with a palm full of French post-cards--
~ William Faulkner