Crosses Quotes - Page 27

• It's the cross-training that's key. It doesn't let your body adapt to one stimulus too much and it keeps your workouts exciting.

  Brett Hoebel

  Workout, Keys, Training

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• Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

  Brett Hoebel

  Training, Intensity, Structure

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• One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.

  David Gemmell

  Wall, Fear, War

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• I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.

  Kristin Hannah

  Country, Fear, Children

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• Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Two, People, Wages

  Stephen Vizinczey (1990). “An Innocent Millionaire”, p.123, University of Chicago Press

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• Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

  James Joyce

  Would Be, Dublin, Passing

  James Joyce (2016). “ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)”, p.55, e-artnow

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• It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.

  A. B. Simpson

  Enough, Decoration

  A. B. Simpson (2010). “The Cross of Christ: His Sufferings and Their Impact on the Believer”, p.23, Moody Publishers

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• There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we make concrete, or at least reconstructable in the minds of our readers, the terrible, true passions that cross telephony lines? Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.

  Quinn Norton

  Falling In Love, War, Passion

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• Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hate, Tree, Looks

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• This is the gospel. The just and loving Creator of the universe has looked upon hopelessly sinful people and sent His Son, God in the flesh, to bear His wrath against sin on the cross and to show His power over sin in the resurrection so that all who trust in Him will be reconciled to God forever.

  David Platt

  Son, Wrath, People

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• The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.

  N. T. Wright

  Mean, God Love

  N. T. Wright (2006). “Evil and the Justice of God”, IVP Books

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• At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.

  John Stott

  God Love, Christ, Holy

  John Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (2009). “The Cross”, p.67, InterVarsity Press

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• 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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• It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

  May Sarton

  Real, People, Effort

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.15, Open Road Media

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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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• The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.

  Eric Schlosser

  Christian, Arches, Golden

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.

  Timothy Keller

  Sorrow, Happy Endings, Resurrection

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.250, Penguin

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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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• Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Hard Work

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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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• God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Doe, Wells

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• Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Dying, Easier, Harder

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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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