Crosses Quotes - Page 26

• You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne'er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, Real, War

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• Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed.

  James Lileks

  Death, Home, Nursing

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• She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet of some strange exotic breed. Not that she did not have enough animals. She had collected several wild and broken animals that, in a way, had become exotic by their breaking. Their roof would have collapsed from the number of birds who might have lived there if the desert hadn't killed three- quarters of those that tried to cross it. Still every animal that came within a certain radius of that house was given a welcome-the tame, the half born, the wild, the wounded.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Animal, Years, Numbers

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The Collected Works of Billy the Kid”, p.35, Vintage

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• The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from the cross are written in sharp-edged terms across some of the most inexpressible tragedies of history: 'They know not what they do'.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Science, Men

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• Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Ugly, Who God Is, Christ

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• This woman was so cross-eyed. She can go to a tennis match and never move her head.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Moving, Tennis

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• God put a cross between you and hell. If you want to go to hell, you will have to crawl over the cross of Jesus.

  Adrian Rogers

  Jesus, Want, Hell

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• Prayer is where the cross changes shoulders.

  Mark Hart

  Prayer, Shoulders

  Mark Hart (2017). “Unleashing the Power of Scripture: A Guide for Catholics”, p.57, The Word Among Us Press

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• The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking the heart from truth. The task of apologetics is to carefully remove that hazardous material and keep it from igniting into a destructive fire. Once that is done, the way to the heart is always through the way of the Cross, God’s love for each and every one of us.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Block, Struggle, Heart

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• No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

  Paul Auster

  Simple, Opaque, Gains

  Paul Auster (2008). “The New York Trilogy”, p.249, Faber & Faber

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• Jesus on the cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it; he defeats it with his resurrection. This is the good that Jesus does for us on the throne of the cross. Christ's cross, embraced with love, never leads to sadness, but to joy, to the joy of having been saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Sadness, Evil

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• A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Zoos, Animal, Royal

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1982). “Dialogues”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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• They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a British fort near Nassau, seizing gunpowder and supplies. Later, during the Revolutionary War, Marines fought several engagements in their distinctive green coats, such as helping George Washington to cross the Delaware River, and assisting John Paul Jones on the Bonhomme Richard to capture the British frigate Serapis during their famous sea fight.

  Tom Clancy

  War, Marine, Fighting

  "Marine". Book by Tom Clancy, 1996.

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• We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Impact, Growth, Purpose

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• Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Loss, Yoke

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1419, Barbour Publishing

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• We need not borrow and take up sorrows upon use of the morrow, to make up our present load; as we read of daily bread, so of a daily cross, Luke ix. M, which we are bid to take, not to make.

  William Gurnall

  "The Christian in Complete Armour".

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• My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations

  Fritz Kreisler

  Order, Nurse, Wife

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.13, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• "Technology" is a cross-curriculum perspective running through the new Australia Curriculum, and there are a number of technology subject areas as well that include coding, which has not previously been part of the Australian Curriculum.

  Susan Mann

  Running, Technology, Numbers

  "The Global Search for Education: Got Tech? - Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2013.

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• The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.

  Dave Chappelle

  Inspirational, Lines, Way

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• It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Hollywood, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Life Is, Made

  C.J. Mahaney (2009). “The Cross-Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing”, p.54, Multnomah

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• It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

  John Stott

  Feet, Size, Shrinks

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.63, InterVarsity Press

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• The cross is the price of true love. Lord, give us the strength to accept and carry our crosses!

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Lord, Accepting

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• I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I'd actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Emotional, Race, Waiting

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• In Christ alone, and His payment of the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, we find reconciliation to God and ultimate meaning and purpose.

  Dave Hunt

  Purpose, Sin, Christ

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