Crosses Quotes - Page 29

• Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Men, Nails, Enough

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• It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.

  Robert Breault

  Fate, Two, People

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• Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

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• In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

  Alfred Adler

  Looks, Fiction, Way

  Alfred Adler (2002). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler, Volume 1: Fundamentals of Individual Psychology and Psychotherapy: the Neurotic Character”, p.48, Alfred Adler Institute

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• Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

  Timothy Keller

  Real, Weakness, Resurrection

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• The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

  Matt Chandler

  Firsts, Christ, Glory

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• The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him an all-absorbing interest, an overwhelming interference. No matter what he may desire to do, there is but one thing he can do; that is, move on toward the place of crucifixion.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Moving, Destiny, Men

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• If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Bears, Ifs

  'De Imitatione Christi' bk. 2, ch. 12, sect. 5

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• If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

  George Orwell

  Character, Class, Ordinary

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.

  Robert Browning

  Ocean, Yield, Average

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.265, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.

  Herman Melville

  Lying, Men, Europe

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.186, Northwestern University Press

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• For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Kings, Teaching, Hard Work

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

  Indira Gandhi

  Nature, People, Cynical

  Indira Gandhi (1992). “Safeguarding Environment”, p.21, New Age International

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• ... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Nails, Christ

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

  Francis Quarles

  Lying, Bed, Crowns

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• Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

  Lenny Bruce

  Lying, Next Week, Comedian

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• A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Prison, Humans, Strain

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• How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Stars, Moving, Long

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• Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

  Carlos Castaneda

  Jesus, Very Happy

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• It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Law, Doe

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.78, SCM Press

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• In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

  Louis Nizer

  Funny, Humorous, Fishing

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• If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance.

  Neil Peart

  Country, Yoga, Home

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• Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

  Peter Abelard

  Son, Compassion, Two

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• Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Enemy, Weakness, Borders

  Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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• The ego is often deeply involved in the desire to help others. If you do not want your ego to be involved in this way, do not be available for others unless you really want to be available. Do not feel that you should be available. Don't sacrifice yourself in any way. Don't go against your true feelings. Don't carry the cross for anyone else. Make sure that there's no sense that helping others makes you a better person or that it will gain you easy access into Heaven. Don't be a martyr.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Sacrifice, Helping Others, Heaven

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