Crosses Quotes - Page 40

• There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Way, One Way

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.205, Library of Alexandria

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• Christ did not come to straighten out the natural, but to "CROSS" it out.

  L. E. Maxwell

  Faith, Christ, Natural

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set”, p.2185, Moody Publishers

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• As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect.

  L. E. Maxwell

  Firsts, Shame, Christ

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• Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has the Cross so seized upon your life?

  L. E. Maxwell

  Strong, Tears, Overcoming

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.2318, Moody Publishers

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• Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

  Carl Sandburg

  Moon, Light, Depth

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.

  L. E. Maxwell

  Commitment, Doe, Welcome

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set”, p.2181, Moody Publishers

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• I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hate, Home, Sunshine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.206, Library of Alexandria

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• Of course, we also are soberly aware that historical problems remain in cross-strait relations, and that there will be issues in the future that will require time, patience and joint efforts to resolve.

  Xi Jinping

  Issues, Effort, Historical

  "China’s Xi pledges peaceful ties with Taiwan in meeting" by Stacy Hsu, www.taipeitimes.com. February 26, 2013.

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• The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in their doorways and greet it reverently, the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Christian, People, Joy

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “A Great Procession Of Priests And Laymen”

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• I find if you're targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else that you might try it later. Writing code that is cross-platform from the start requires more discipline, but I find it is worth the effort.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Writing, Discipline, Effort

  Interview with Luboš Doležel, www.abclinuxu.cz. March 08, 2011.

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• [The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments more capable of spoiling everything than of making it succeed.

  Theodore Guerin

  Giving, Community, Trials

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• This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

  Alan Hirsch

  Jesus, Games, Roots

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.80, Baker Books

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• Let us leave tomorrow's trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.

  T. B. Joshua

  Tomorrow, Trouble, Bores

  "Prophet TB Joshua Predicted The Death Of Michael Jackson". Africa News, June 29, 2009.

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• Early man recognised these lines of force and marked them out on the landscape with, well, any old thing, really standing stones, ditches, mounds, tumps, sacred wells, and that sort of thing. And, later on, with churches, market crosses, crossroads, and whatnot.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Men, Old Things, Church

  "The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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• If he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would shout your "crucifige!" and nail him to the cross which he himself bore. But he mildly smiles upon your hate: "The truth will prevail, even if the bearer falls; the faith will live, for I give my life ... and stand tall at the cross for all warriors of the world.

  Baldur von Schirach

  Hate, Fall, Warrior

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• In the time of Jesus the mount of transfiguration was on the way to the cross. In our day the cross is on the way to the mount of transfiguration. If you would be on the mountain. you must consent to pass over the road to it.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Jesus, Mountain, Trials

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 585), 1895.

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• Well, then, Lord Jesus! I will creep if I cannot walk; I will take hold of Thy word. When I stumble, Thou wilt support me; when I fall, Thou wilt hold out Thy cross, and help me with it to rise again, until at length I reach the place where Thou art, and with all my weaknesses and wants, cast myself into Thy bosom.

  Christian Scriver

  Jesus, Art, Fall

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.22

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• Love and sacrifice are not the same thing, but they are inseparable. To think of Christ and to think of the Cross is not the same thing, but the association is so close that the implication is immediate. Where love has been preached without sacrifice, it has not led to love but to license.

  Hubert Van Zeller

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Association

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• People of the cross? A symbol of shame has become our confidence.

  Stephen Nichols

  People, Shame, Symbols

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• Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mother, Agony, Heaven

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1835). “Outre-mer: a pilgrimage beyond the sea”, p.191

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• One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

  Juvenal

  Crowns, Crime

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• You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference.

  Paul Schrader

  Character, Thinking, Symbolism

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• I'll toss my coins in the fountain,
  Look for clovers in grassy lawns
  Search for shooting stars in the night
  Cross my fingers and dream on.

  Tracy Chapman

  Dream, Stars, Night

  Song: Dreaming On A World

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• How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of their mode of life, a little of their time? if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space “in no time” is to have denied its reality

  Robert Adams

  Reality, Rocks, Views

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Razors, Lines

  Song: Shelter From The Storm, 1975

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