Crosses Quotes - Page 14

• What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the price that holiness requires. The cross was his means of redeeming lost sinners and reconciling them to himself, but it was also a profound disclosure of his mercy. It is, in Paul’s words, an ‘inexpressible gift’ that leads us to wonder and worship, to praise and adore the God who has given himself to us in this way.

  David F. Wells

  Mean, Character, White

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• God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay a price to touch godliness through a daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross. God calls us to learn godliness in the classroom of life among people as we sit on airplanes and buses, walk among our neighbors and labor at our factories or desks.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Airplane, Self, People

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• So, transform yourself first… Because you are young and have dreams and want to do something meaningful, that in itself, makes you our future and our hope. Keep expanding your horizon, decolonize your mind, and cross borders.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  Meaningful, Dream, Mind

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• We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise; unique, individual, person, vocation; time, history, future; freedom, progress, spirit; faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of the Jews.

  Thomas Cahill

  Dream, Morning, Adventure

  "Jews Built the Civilization That the Irish Saved / Thomas Cahill says Israelites provided the foundation for Western culture" by Ron H. Feldman, www.sfgate.com. March 29, 1998.

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• I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually been some studies about that, that it's cathartic. If you go to QuakeCon and you walk by and you see the people there [and compare that to] a random cross section of a college campus, you're probably going to find a more peaceful crowd of people at the gaming convention. I think it’s at worst neutral and potentially positive.

  John Carmack

  College, Thinking, Games

  "Violent Games Reduce Aggression, Says Id Boss". IndustryGamers Interview, www.digitalspy.com. July 31, 2011.

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• From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Years, Missionary, Bears

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• It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings

  Isak Dinesen

  Lying, Sake, Christ

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.51, Vintage

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• The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic space...In such spaces as the labyrinth we cross over [between real and imaginary spaces]; we are really travelling, even if the destination is only symbolic.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Real, Garden, Space

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• The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Heart, Body

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• The Cross is the way to Paradise, but only when it is borne willingly.

  Paul of the Cross

  Saint, Paradise, Way

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• When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Christian, Please Me, Grace

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• Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Godly, Men, Wicked

  Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.172, Lulu.com

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• 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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• If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency.

  Matt Chandler

  Religious, Prayer, Practice

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• My sin in the past: forgiven.  My current struggles: covered.  My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Struggle, Past

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• The cross of Christ is the response of God to men for belittling His name.

  Matt Chandler

  Men, Names, Christ

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• Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their lives than any of the alternatives. Europeans accept democracy because they no longer believe in politics. It is for this reason that we find both high levels of support for democracy in cross-national opinion polls and high rates of political apathy.

  Mark Mazower

  Believe, Commitment, Support

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• Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.

  Charles Studd

  Loneliness, Heart, Wish

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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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• In uniting yourself to God's will, you take on new life and gather great courage, willingly embracing the cross and kissing His hand even when it chastises you, a hand that reaches out to you in love and has no other intention but your greater spiritual well-being.

  Paul of the Cross

  Spiritual, Kissing, Hands

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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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• We want gain without pain; we want the resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by way of the Cross. But in God's economy, the way up is down.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Pain, Crowns, Laziness

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Brokenness: The Heart God Revives”, p.47, Moody Publishers

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

  Darrell Royal

  Horse, Feels

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• Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grapsed, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearnace as a man, he humbled himself and becamse obedient to death-even death on a cross!

  Paul the Apostle

  Love, Jesus, Attitude

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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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