Crosses Quotes - Page 33

• On this earth everyone has his cross. But we must act in such a way that we be not the bad, but good thief.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Suffering, Thieves, Earth

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• The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Crush, Suffering, Weight

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• I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Philosophical, Ignorance, Vanity

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• There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Optimism, Lines

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Oct 11, 2013

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• Missy is really a man. She's a cross dresser. She hangs out with Sammartino. They shave each other's back.

  Paul Heyman

  Wrestling, Men, Hanging Out

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• Now, who can call 'Good Friday' good? - A term too oft misunderstood - You, who were bought by the blood of His cross, You can call 'Good Friday' good.

  Johnny Hart

  Friday, Blood, Misunderstood

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• Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the Spirit's final harvest, may inherit Paradise. If we Christian's truly treasure the hope that one day we, like Adam and the penitent thief, will walk alongside the One who caused even the dead wood of the Cross to blossom with flowers, then we must also imitate the Master's art and make the desolate earth grow green.

  Vigen Guroian

  Christian, Art, Flower

  Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.17, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be "reborn" to be anything but what I am. And so in the Christian life. I must be born anew. That is why Christ took me with Himself down into the grave and brought me forth a "new creation." He terminated my old life when there upon the Cross as Representative He died; and He imparted to me a new life when He arose from the grave.

  F. Huegel

  Christian, New Life, Resurrection

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• I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through. W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Men, Blood

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• Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great forest communities, they help sustain life on our planet, giving off oxygen, anchoring soil, keeping stream and rivers clear, and providing habitation for thousands of species. How can religious persons not care about the widespread destruction of these creatures of God? We need to love them as our very selves, as neighbors in earth's community of life.

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  Christian, Religious, Unique

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• How can it be other than right to worship the Body of the Lord, all-holy and all-reverend as it is, announced as it was by the archangel Gabriel, formed by the Holy Spirit, and made the Vesture of the Word? It was at any rate a bodily hand that the Word stretched out to raise her that was sick of a fever (Mk. 1:31): a human voice that He uttered to raise Lazarus - the dead (Jn. 11:43); and, once again, stretching out His hands upon the Cross, He overthrew the prince of the power of the air, that now works (Eph. 2:2) in the sons of disobedience, and made the way clear for us into the heavens.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Son, Hands

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• When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in Heaven to the Apostles, when he speaks of the kingdom of the Father, he is always pointing toward eternity. However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content. He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not. The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new sense: the sense of the eternal.

  Adrienne von Speyr

  Father, Son, Echoes

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• Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Hypocrisy, Yoke

  Friedrich Schiller (1864). “The Poems and Ballads of Schiller”, p.77

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• At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Democracy, Paper

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• They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

  Horace

  Travel, Happy Life, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 11. 27, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 809-11, 1922.

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• The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Cutting, Promise, Pieces

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.718, Vintage

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• Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.

  Martial

  Swings, Bird, Bears

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• Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Devil, Amen

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Ambrose ECCLES (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ... With the Notes and Illustrations of Various Commentators, and Remarks by the Editor [A. Eccles].”, p.116

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• Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.

  Richard Crashaw

  Sweet, Art, Wine

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles (1857). “The poetical works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.15

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• There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed. It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water, And moor herself within my room-- My daughter! O my daughter!

  George Washington

  Daughter, Sunday, Night

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• After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American Red Cross suggests you go for the high protein items.

  Anne Sexton

  Challenges, Energy, Needs

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• My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Lying, Gun

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• A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Eye, Double Minded, Duplicity

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.

  Matthew Henry

  Bible, Despair, Bed

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• The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.

  John Chancellor

  Anger, Pride, Envy

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