Cross Quotes
2149 quotes by 1460 authors
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Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with…
— Nelson Mandela
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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to…
— Italo Calvino
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By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!
— Frederic Farrar
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The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and…
— Augustus William Hare
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Exalt the Cross! God has hung the destiny of the race upon it. Other things we may do in the realm of ethics, and on…
— Theodore L. Cuyler
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By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!…
— Frederic Farrar
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The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will be ours if…
— Boniface Wimmer
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English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope…
— Alan Coren
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a…
— Alexander Pope
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In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf -…
— Alistair Cooke
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Gerry Ford is easy to spot on the course. He drives the cart with the red cross painted on top.
— Bob Hope
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Hagen said that no-one remembers who finished second. But they still ask me if I ever think about that putt I missed to win the…
— Doug Sanders
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them…
— Benjamin Rush
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As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.
— John Eliot
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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.
— William Shakespeare
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Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going…
— Jackie Kay
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Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.
— James Madison
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I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I…
— George W. Bush
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You think when Jesus comes back, he really wants to see a cross? That's like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on.
— Bill Hicks
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