Crosses Quotes - Page 20

• God can be found only in suffering and the cross.

  Martin Luther

  Suffering, Found

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.70, Fortress Press

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• The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.

  John Stott

  Christian, Focus, Community

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, InterVarsity Press

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• Christians are meant to have the same vocation as their King, that of cross-bearers. It is this conscience of a high calling and of partnership with Jesus which brings gladness in tribulations, which makes Christians enter prisons for their faith with the joy of a bridegroom entering the bridal room.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

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• I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mother, Children, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1452, Delphi Classics

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• We lose our way around the Bible when we take our eyes off the Cross.

  Alistair Begg

  Eye, Way, Loses

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• Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs, His pains thine ease, His shame thy glory, His death thy life, His sufferings thy salvation.

  Matthew Henry

  Song, Pain, Healing

  Matthew Henry (1828). “Communicant's Companion”, p.130

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• Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

  J. C. Ryle

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Humble

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• Only at the cross of Christ does man see fully what it is that separates him from God; yet it is here alone that he perceives that he is no longer separated from God. Nowehere else does the inviolable holiness of God, the impossibility of overlooking the guilt of man stand out more plainly; but nowhere else does the limitless mercy of God, which utterly transcends all human standards, stand out more clearly and plainly.

  Emil Brunner

  Men, Mercy Of God, Guilt

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• Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?

  Max Lucado

  Religious, Knowing, Packages

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.389, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Kings, Kingdoms, Strange

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is on the Cross: Reflections on Lent and Easter”, p.69, Westminster John Knox Press

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• When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.

  John Owen

  Bait, World, Rooms

  John Owen, James M. Houston (2004). “Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity”, p.102, David C Cook

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• For I bring not a religion... but a Person, who loves people, who died for them on the cross. For Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and He will not that any one should perish. He understands every single individual.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, People, World

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• People say the cross is a sign of how much man is worth. That’s not true. The cross is a sign of how depraved we really are, that it took the death of God’s own Son. The only thing that could save a people like us was the death of God’s own Son under the wrath of His own Father paying the price, rising again from the dead. Powerful to say, this is the Gospel of Jesus.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Powerful, Father

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• The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Strong, Ocean, Soul

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• At 24 I decided that my life is enough for me, and I stopped looking for some other piece to complete it. I also learned how to needlepoint ironic cross-stitches of rap lyrics and gave them to my friends as presents. I’ll let you decide which is the more important revelation.

  Taylor Swift

  Rap, Ironic, Important

  "Tell Us About Yourself(ie): Taylor Swift". Interview with Reggie Ugwu, www.buzzfeed.com. November 11, 2014.

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• The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

  N. T. Wright

  Heart, Character, Window

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• Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

  Paul David Tripp

  Heart, Issues, Grace

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2015

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• Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Strong, Hate

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• The cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world.

  Billy Graham

  Evil, World, Offensive

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• The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

  J. C. Ryle

  Children, Suffering, Bears

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• The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Feet, Repentance

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• Meditation
  practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on
  the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being on the spot, your
  life can become workable and even wonderful. You realize that you are
  capable of sitting like a king or queen on a throne. The regalness of
  that situation shows you the... dignity that comes from being still and
  simple.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Kings, Queens, Simple

  Chogyam Trungpa (2005). “The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume, you have hitherto read your Bible to very little profit. Your religion is a heaven without a sun, an arch without a keystone, a compass without a needle, a clock without a spring or weights, a lamp without oil. It will not comfort you; it will not deliver your soul from hell.

  J. C. Ryle

  Spring, Oil, Heaven

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• The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.

  R. C. Sproul

  Father, Son, Sacrifice

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• The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.

  Pope Francis

  Ornaments, Mystery, Sin

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