Crosses Quotes - Page 12

• Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

  Jean Liedloff

  Children, Disappointment, Learning

  Jean Liedloff (1975). “The continuum concept”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

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• Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the powerful, and a pacifist doctrine. And it remained that way, that's what Christianity was up... until Constantine. :Constantine shifted it so the cross, which was the symbol of persecution of somebody working for the poor, was put on the shield of the Roman Empire. It became the symbol for violence and oppression, and that's pretty much what the church has been until the present.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jesus, Powerful, Church

  "Science in the Dock". Science & Theology News Interview, chomsky.info. March 1, 2006.

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• Remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Differences, Mind

  "Maya Angelou: my terrible, wonderful mother" by Maya Angelou, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2013.

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• If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Criticism, Would Be

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.85, Beacon Press

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• God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

  Adrian Rogers

  Curves, Grades, Praiseworthy

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• Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross the Great River. The peak is a coiled dragon, the city a crouching tiger more dazzling than before. The sky is spinning and the earth upside down. We are elated yet we must use our courage to chase the hopeless enemy. We must not stoop to fame like the overlord Hsiang Yu. If heaven has feeling it will grow old and watch our seas turn into mulberry fields.

  Mao Zedong

  Courage, Rain, Yellow

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• But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us - the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.

  J. B. Priestley

  Dream, Real, Self

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• I have always tried...to lay before the colored race a cross section of it's own life, to view the colored heart from close range.

  Oscar Micheaux

  Heart, Race, Views

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• To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Science, Ideas, Two

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• It is tragic for our God, Who gave us His Son to die on the cross, to beg us to love Him.

  Jack Hyles

  Son, Tragic, Dies

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• I knew I was crazy because I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar and the part where Jesus carries the cross up the mountain, I actually said to myself, "Wow! That must be a really good workout! Yeah, because you're doing arms and cardio!"

  Margaret Cho

  Workout, Jesus, Crazy

  "Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want". TV Special, August 4, 2000.

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• No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross

  Matsuri Hino

  Light, Tree, Trying

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• The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.

  Watchman Nee

  Negative, Resurrection, Universe

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.215, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Long-lasting victory can never be separated from a long-lasting stand on the foundation of the cross.

  Watchman Nee

  Long, Victory, Foundation

  Watchman Nee (1991). “The Word of the Cross”, p.14, Living Stream Ministry

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• The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. My grandmother never owned a house. She cleaned other people's houses so she could afford to rent her own. But she saw her daughter become the first in her family to graduate from college. And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

  Julian Castro

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

  "Julian Castro's 5 notable lines" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

  Gene Brown

  Bridges, Rivers

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• There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Love, Passion, Secret

  Jane Kenyon, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1999). “A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem”, Graywolf Pr

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• Which other major religion is based on the Godhead incarnate being whipped, tacked to a cross, stabbed? Only the Marquis de Sade could have made up a sicker religion. It's no wonder that those brought up in such a culture hate life and enjoy inflicting pain. All societies are sick but some are sicker than others. Christian societies are certainly the sickest.

  Gore Vidal

  Christian, Pain, Hate

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• Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Jealous, Borders, Language

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• Whatever our personal burden or cross to bear might be, we are here. We live! We Learn! The Grand Adventure is under way for us. Terrible as our trials might be, we are blessed and not abandoned by God.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Blessed, Learning, Adventure

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• Before the coming of Jesus Christ, men fled away from God and, being attached to the earth, refused to unite themselves to their Creator. But the loving God has drawn them to Himself by the bonds of love, as He promised by the prophet Osee [Hosea]: "I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bonds of love" (11:4). These bonds are the benefits, the lights, the calls to His love, the promises of Paradise which He makes to us, but above all, the gift which He has bestowed upon us of Jesus Christ in the Sacrifice of the Cross and in the Sacrament of the Altar.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Men

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• On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. Our greatest cross is the fear of crosses. . . We have not the courage to carry our cross, and we are very much mistaken; for, whatever we do, the cross holds us tight - we cannot escape from it. What, then, have we to lose? Why not love our crosses, and make use of them to take us to heaven?

  John Vianney

  Children, Heaven, Suffering

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• This book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show him that he must not fear pain, temptation or death - because all three can be conquered, all three have already been conquered. Christ suffered pain, and since then pain has been sanctified. Temptation fought until the very last moment to lead him astray, and Temptation was defeated. Christ died on the Cross, and at that instant death was vanquished forever.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Pain, Fear, Book

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Now I've a hope that will surely endure after the passing of time. I have a future in heaven for sure; there in those mansions sublime. And it's because of that wonderful day when at the cross I believed. Riches eternal and blessings supernal from His precious hand I received

  John W. Peterson

  Blessing, Hands, Heaven

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• The work of redemption was accomplished by Christ in His death on the cross and has in view the payment of the price demanded by a holy God for the deliverance of the believer from the bondage and burden of sin. Inredemption the sinner is set free from his condemnation and slavery to sin.

  John F Walvoord

  Views, Redemption, Slavery

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