Crosses Quote by Arthur W. Pink Download Open image “Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.” — Arthur W. Pink ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crosses Life Mean
When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“When Jesus said to his followers “take up your cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23) he didn’t say “carry the cross life hands to you.” Your financial crisis is not your cross to bear. Neither is a physical condition, a family problem, or a lousy job. Difficult life circumstances are not crosses to bear. Volitionally taking up the cross… — Ramon Presson Copy Share
The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Following Jesus means taking up one's own cross to accompany him on his path, an uncomfortable path that is not one of success or… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“If we read the text alone, assuming that the word 'cross' can only derive its meaning from the later death of Jesus, then its… — John Howard Yoder Copy Share Image
“Here is a fundamental difference between the man of faith and the man of unbelief. The unbeliever is 'of the world', judges everything by… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency of His… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents. — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Growing in grace is a deepening realization of our nothingness; it is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents. — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
“The gospel of Satan is not a system of revolutionary principles, nor yet a program of anarchy. It does not promote strife and war,… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
“Again, there are multitudes who are quite ready for Christ to justify them, but not to sanctify. Some kind, some degree, of sanctification they… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it! — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him.… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I told my mom I was going to do a movie about a son who hears a story about his mom and takes her… — Dan Fogelman Copy Share Image
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
[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… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
Never forget that the road to Heaven is the Way of the Cross. Jesus has called us to follow Him, bearing the Cross as… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
![“[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…” quote by Theodore Guerin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2b8/theodore-guerin-54729_accomplish_the-community-s-crosses-and-trials-give_7176.jpg)
