Crosses Quotes - Page 21

• A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, 'I can't prove a thing, but there's something about his eyes and his voice. There's something about the way he carries his head, his hands, the way he carries his cross-the way he carries me.'

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Eye, Hands

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Fire, People, Ordinary

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year”, p.15, Destiny Image Publishers

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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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• Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Passion, Eyeballs, Mediums

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 55: Sermons 3125-3177”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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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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• How I wish that all men and women of good will would look to the Cross if only for a moment! There, we can see God’s reply: violence is not answered with violence, death is not answered with the language of death. In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue, and peace is spoken.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Silence, Wish

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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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• There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Feet, World

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.181, Ravenio Books

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• For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.

  John Calvin

  Son, Men, Essence

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

  Edith Stein

  Desire, Chosen

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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 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 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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• 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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