Crosses Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Pain, Suffering, Gifts Of Life

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• Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

  J. D. Greear

  Compassion, Praying, Resurrection

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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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• A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.

  D. A. Carson

  Understanding, Sin, Weak

  D. A. Carson (2012). “Christ and Culture Revisited”, p.82, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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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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• ... 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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• There is one antidote for evil passions: the purification of our souls which takes place through the mystery of godliness. The chief act of faith in this mystery is to look to Him who suffered the passion for us. The cross is the passion, so that whoever looks to it? is not harmed by the poison of desire. To look to the cross means to render one's whole life dead and crucified to the world.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Christian, Passion, Mean

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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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• Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.

  Graham Nash

  Travel, Men, Immigration

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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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• As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Queens, Inspiration, Writing

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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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• There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ....No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology finds its beginnings in the miracle of miracles, that God became human.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jana Riess, O. C. Dean, Jr. (2010). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”

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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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• If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods. Which cross have you taken up? Pause and consider.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Taken, World, Bears

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• Remember the economy of the Kingdom is simple. Every time we come to cross a new threshold, it costs us everything we now have. Every new step may cost us all the reputation & security we've accumulated up to that point. It costs us our life.

  John Wimber

  Simple, Steps, Cost

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• There's not 20 ways. It's not your way. It's either God's way or the highway. That's it. If you want to get to heaven, you have to come God's way, and the way that God established was the way of His Son dying on the cross.

  Skip Heitzig

  Son, Heaven, Dying

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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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• Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.

  Rick Pitino

  Jobs, Athlete, Bridges

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