Crosses Quotes

The cross is steady while the world is turning.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ.

Our Lord sends the crosses; we do not have to invent them.

Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.

Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety.

At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners; on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners.

When you cross the street, take my hand

Because of Jesus' finished work of the cross, He will never be angry with you nor rebuke you even when you fail.

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.

Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.

Without the cross, there's only condemnation. If Jesus wasn't executed, there's no celebration.

Polls? Nah... they're for strippers and cross country skiers.

Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?

Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

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

God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

If you carry your cross joyfully, it will carry you.

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

The moment the word 'why' crosses your lips, you are doing theology.

We are just about to cross the 400 parts per million threshold.

Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.

Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified

The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

Sometimes I definitely shut people out. I can be that sort of girlfriend who crosses her arms, shakes her head and says, "Nope, I'm not telling you what's wrong. I'm fine."

I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

A cross without offense to the world is a cross without power in the world.

The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.

The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.

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

Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that.