Crosses Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Dying, Looks

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• A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Disappointment, Soul, Bereavement

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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 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 sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.

  R. C. Sproul

  Beautiful, Jesus, 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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• The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

  John Calvin

  Shining, Glory, Creatures

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• The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

  D. A. Carson

  Arrogance, Humans, Pretension

  D. A. Carson (2004). “The Cross and Christian Ministry: An Exposition of Passages from 1 Corinthians”, p.15, Baker Books

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• ... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Taken, Sleep

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.10392, Aeterna Press

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• ... you... are stones of the temple of the Father, prepared for the Father's building, and drawn up on high by the instrument of Jesus Christ, which is the Cross (cf. Jn. 12:32), making use of the Holy Spirit as a rope, while your faith was the means by which you ascended, and your love the way which led up to God. You, therefore, as well as all your fellow-travelers, are God-bearers, temple-bearers, Christ-bearers, bearers of holiness, adorned in all respects with the commandments of Jesus Christ.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Christian, Jesus, Father

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• They have not understood that the Lord's Cross discloses the entire dispensation of His coming in the flesh, and contains within it the whole mystery of this dispensation. Extending in all directions, it embraces everything above, below, around and between.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Son, Men

  "The homilies".

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• If... God highly exalted Christ because He humbled Himself, suffered dishonour, was tempted and endured a shameful cross and death for our sake, how will He save, glorify and raise us up if we neither choose humility, nor show love to our fellows, nor gain our souls by enduring temptation (cf. Lk. 21:19), nor follow the saving Guide through the 'strait gate' and along the 'narrow way' leading to eternal life (Mt. 7:14)? To this end we were called, says Peter, the chief Apostle, ' Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that we should follow His steps' (I Pet. 2:21).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Humility, Cfs

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• Downhill's the future of the sport. Cross-country's not geared for TV. Some fat guy watching it with a beer in one hand and potato chips in the other is going to say, I can do that. America likes to see people crash.

  Missy Giove

  Sports, Country, Beer

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• "God is love". His is not a sentimental, emotional kind of love but the love of the Father who is the origin of all life, the love of the Son who dies on the Cross and is raised, the love of the Spirit who renews human beings and the world. Thinking that God is love does us so much good, because it teaches us to love, to give ourselves to others as Jesus gave himself to us and walks with us. Jesus walks beside us on the road through life.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Jesus, Father

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.16, SPCK

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• You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Mistake, Clothes, Labels

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• Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who supports them. The disciples bear the suffering laid on them only by the power of him who bears all suffering on the cross. As bearers of suffering, they stand in communion with the Crucified.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Broken, Support, Suffering

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• Jesus didn't say that if you wanted to follow Him you could do it in a lukewarm manner. He said, 'Take up your cross and follow Me.'

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Follow Me, Said

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.56, David C Cook

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• A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.

  Alan Redpath

  Purpose, Path, God's Plan

  Alan Redpath (2004). “The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David”, p.54, Baker Books

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• Without the cross, there's only condemnation. If Jesus wasn't executed, there's no celebration.

  LeCrae

  Jesus, Celebration, Condemnation

  Song: Boasting, Album: Rehab, 2010

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• The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

  Oswald Chambers

  Events, Answers, Problem

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.212, Discovery House

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• Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

  Barbara G. Walker

  Tree, Males, Stills

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• Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love of frivolities, their attempts to meet the world on it's own ground, and give back the old love of the doctrines of the Cross and Christ. May free grace and dying love again be the music that refreshes the church and makes her heart exceeding glad.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Heart, Giving

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2001). “Prayer”, Whitaker Distribution

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• The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.

  J. I. Packer

  Preacher, Whole

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• The cross is the ladder to heaven.

  Thomas Draxe

  Heaven, Ladders

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