Crosses Quotes · Page 27

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of…

— John Henry Newman

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming…

— Mark Batterson

I like to get on with people. I don't go around being nasty, but if someone crosses me, I can be horrible…

— Twiggy

At these crossover points, there are a lot of beings, nonphysical beings that cross over back and forth constantly.

— Frederick Lenz

The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.

— Rabindranath Tagore

[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

— Joan of Arc

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.

— Basil Moreau

The reason it's called "Grape Nuts" is that it contains "dextrose," which is also sometimes called "grape sugar," and also because "Grape…

— Dave Barry

To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being…

— Italo Calvino

Crosses?" "Definitely" "Why?" "Because they're evil, soulless, bloodsucking fiends?" "So was my sixth-grade gym teacher, but he wasn't afraid of a cross.

— Rachel Caine

Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to…

— Martin Luther

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind,…

— Sophocles

Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed…

— Ridley Pearson

Exalt the Cross! God has hung the destiny of the race upon it. Other things we may do in the realm of…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

It is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time…

— John Gimlette

The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft…

— Leigh Hunt

Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise…

— Mark Hopkins

Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company…

— John Owen

I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor…

— W. H. Davies

Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to…

— Richard Salter Storrs

I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in…

— Sandra Bullock

When in the wondrous realms above Our Saviour had been called upon, To save our world of sin by love, He said,…

— Frank I. Kooyman

I believe the hard heartest, most cross grained and most unloving Christians in all the world are those who have not had…

— Charles Spurgeon

God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide…

— John Piper

The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.

— John Bevere

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

— Swami Vivekananda

You live your comedic life close to the edge, you're gonna cross the line and offend people.

— Charlie Day

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

— P. L. Travers

We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.

— Kinky Friedman

Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil…

— Tom Peters

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

— Anonymous

Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater-the…

— Billy Graham

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

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

— Brett Hoebel

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the…

— Charles Spurgeon

Then it crosses my mind, ‘But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!’

— Jill Bolte Taylor

God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and…

— Bill Hybels

Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top.…

— Arsene Wenger