Crosses Quotes - Page 23

• The cross is the great jewel of the Christian faith and like every great jewel it has many precious facets that are each worthy of examining for their brilliance and beauty.

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Jewels, Worthy

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• Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.

  Francis Chan

  Light, Color, Profound

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.96, David C Cook

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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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• Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.

  J. I. Packer

  Mean, Son, Heaven

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.249, InterVarsity Press

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• The cross is the ladder to heaven.

  Thomas Draxe

  Heaven, Ladders

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• My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

  Peter Tosh

  Philosophy, Crowns, Bears

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• When you go into the world today, before you leave your home, promise yourself that you'll find at least one miracle. Without any limits or bounds on what you think it should look like, simply state for yourself your clear intention that of the many miracles that cross your path, you'll recognize one of them.

  Gregg Braden

  Home, Thinking, Miracle

  Gregg Braden (2008). “The Spontaneous Healing of Belief”, p.183, Hay House, Inc

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• Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Heaven, Titles

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.48, Editora Dracaena

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• Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

  J. C. Ryle

  Book, Dark, Christ

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.178, Ravenio Books

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• I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.

  W. S. Merwin

  Going Away, Trying, Littles

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• In Jesus Christ on the Cross, there is refuge; there is safety; there is shelter; and all the power of sin upon our track cannot reach us when we have taken shelter under the Cross that atones for our sins.

  A. C. Dixon

  Jesus, Taken, Christ On The Cross

  a.c.dixon (1962). “the glories of the cross”

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• I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Feet, Sin, Weeping

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 60: Sermons 3387-3439”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• People need a consistent explanation of the cross of Christ and what it accomplished. Christ's atoning work is the centerpiece of the gospel and the only solution for humanity's estrangement from our Creator.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Humanity, Needs

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• Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

  D. A. Carson

  Wrath, Wish, Looks

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• Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.

  Ann Voskamp

  Iron, Kind, Kinds Of Love

  Ann Voskamp (2016). “The Broken Way (with Bonus Content): A Daring Path into the Abundant Life”, p.51, Zondervan

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• Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mind, Trying, Offense

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• The moment the word 'why' crosses your lips, you are doing theology.

  Carolyn Custis James

  Lips, Moments, Theology

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• Before we can begin to see the cross as something done FOR us, leading us to faith and worship, we have to see it as something done BY us, leading us to repentance. Only the man or woman who is prepared to own his share in the guilt of the cross may claim his share in its grace.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Men, Grace, Guilt

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• If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.

  D. A. Carson

  Looks, Want, Judgment

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• The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

  John Stott

  Giving, World, Compass

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• Never allow the cross to lose it’s centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions, but the ultimate source of hope for every problem we face in our lives is the cross where Jesus died.

  Brandon Cox

  Jesus, Believe, Church

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• When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

  Max Lucado

  Desire, Favors, Threshold

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from May 21, 2012

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• The real power is love, that which empowers others, that which arouses action, that which no chain is able to hold back, for even on the Cross or on the death bed one is able to love. One does not need youthful beauty, nor recognition or approval, nor money or prestige. Let love simply bloom...and it is unstoppable.

  Pope Francis

  Real, Empowering, Bed

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• Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and slyly unsettling. It is expert at creating a quietly building sense of dread while claiming to do something as straightforward as describe lost films—like those conversations you have in which you realize only too late that what you actually talking about and what you think you are talking about are not the same thing at all. With Rombes, Two Dollar Radio deftly demonstrates why it is rapidly becoming the go-to press for innovative fiction.

  Brian Evenson

  Smart, Book, Thinking

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