Crosses Quotes - Page 10

• Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.

  Teresa of Avila

  Sweet, Saint, Christ

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• The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the point where there is an emerging breed of sub-editors who take perfectly well-written and punctuated original copy and rewrite it so that it resembles a text message written by a 14-year-old under the influence of Bacardi Breezers.

  Kathryn Flett

  Editors, America, Years

  "Thank goodness it's a jungle out there" by Kathryn Flett, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.

  Alexander Pope

  Kissing, White, Might

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.41, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Once you cross the 50 you feel like an unsaddled horse.

  Darrell Royal

  Horse, Feels

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• Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all religions. If the cross is the sign of anything, it's the sign that God has gone out of the religion business and solved all of the world's problems without requiring a single human being to do a single religious thing. What the cross is actually a sign of is the fact that religion can't do a thing about the world's problems - that it never did work and it never will

  Robert Farrar Capon

  God, Religious, Religion

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• I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

  Sharni Vinson

  Art, Fighting, Thinking

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• For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.

  Samuel Smiles

  Life, Success, Fighting

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• By seeing life's experiences on through to the end, on our small scale we can finally say, as Jesus did on the cross, "It is finished". We too can then have "finished [our] preparations," having done the particular work God gave each of us to do.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Jesus, Taken

  "Men and Women of Christ".

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• I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, Simple, Hypocrisy

  Doctor Zhivago "Zhivago's Poems: Hamlet" (1958) (translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)

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• Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.

  Tacitus

  Christian, Sports, Dog

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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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• Your mouth on mine our bridge to cross and serve where we would go. Utopia of sensations the flesh could never know.

  Vanna Bonta

  Love, Sex, Bridges

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• There are people who say, 'Oh every time Catholics make the sign of the cross they re-crucify Christ.' Look, that's what comes under the theological classification of happy horse manure! That's bologna, absolute bologna! They don't know anything about our religion, and I don't purport to know anything about theirs. I respect theirs, respect ours. When we make the sign of the cross, we are simply making a statement of faith. I believe in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and I believe in the sign of the cross, because that is the sign of our salvation!

  John Corapi

  Horse, Father, Believe

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• God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?

  Pope John Paul II

  Catholic, God Is Love, Asks

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• Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Taken, Catholic

  Pope John Paul II, Achille Silvestrini, Jerome M. Vereb (1999). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.305, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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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• Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey.

  Anthony of Padua

  Christian, Journey, Long

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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