Crosses Quotes - Page 33

• Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.

  Billy Graham

  Feet, Grace, Bows

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do you think the Roman soldiers thought he was the Son of God or just some goofball who got nailed to the cross? In 2000 years, we've probably made somebody who is the equivalent of Elvis into God, so I see no reason why not to believe that in 2000 years Elvis will be God.

  Geoffrey Fieger

  Believe, Son, Thinking

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• A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them; it has a chemical or magical effect; it sickens them. But I am never more free and royal than when the subtile celerity of its magic combinations, whatever they are, is at work.

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

  Moon, Magic, Suffering

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Alfred Bendixen (1989). “The Amber Gods, and Other Stories”, p.67, Rutgers University Press

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• Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Feet, Way

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• On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Grace, Outcast

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.32, Penguin

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• The moment of Jesus' greatest glory was on the cross, dying as our substitute.

  Rich Nathan

  Jesus, Dying, Moments

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• We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Invites

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• While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and they noted those rumors and kept an eye out for any evidence of them, but they saw nothing to indicate that the rumors were true.

  David Duke

  Eye, Ku Klux Klan, Volunteer

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• Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share of suffering and rejection. But each has a different share: some God deems worthy of the highest form of suffering, and gives them the grace of martyrdom, while others he does not allow to be tempted above that which they are able to bear. But it is the one and the same cross in every case.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Giving

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.44, SCM Press

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• Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

  Timothy Keller

  Holy, Loving God, Holy God

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• The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Defeat, Defeated

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• Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

  Horace

  Death, Running, Law

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• Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is...No.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Winning, Self, Discipline

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• I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the distance on the other side of the river. I've seen it in photographs a thousand times, but seeing it in person for the first time that reminds me that I'm really, truly here, thousands of miles away, across an ocean from home.

  Kristin Harmel

  Distance, Ocean, Home

  Kristin Harmel (2012). “The Sweetness of Forgetting”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled.

  John Burroughs

  Weather, Snow, Woods

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.56

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• Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow your Lord. The masses are always wrong. In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Heart, Roots

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• The only way to heal is to look at the Cross, to look at God Who takes upon Himself our sins: my sin is there.

  Pope Francis

  Looks, Way, Sin

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• To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Agony, Doe, Firsts

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• Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Pain, Artist

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• I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.

  Fergie

  Girl, Queens, Drama

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• Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Men, Nails, Enough

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• Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

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• The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

  Matt Chandler

  Firsts, Christ, Glory

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• The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him an all-absorbing interest, an overwhelming interference. No matter what he may desire to do, there is but one thing he can do; that is, move on toward the place of crucifixion.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Moving, Destiny, Men

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• If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Bears, Ifs

  'De Imitatione Christi' bk. 2, ch. 12, sect. 5

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