Cross Quotes
2149 Cross quotes by 1410 unique authors
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The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.
— Max Lucado
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.
— Thomas a Kempis
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If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes,…
— George Orwell
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We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.
— Robert Browning
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I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.
— Nicholas Sparks
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There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men…
— Herman Melville
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For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.
— Indira Gandhi
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... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.
— Billy Graham
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The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.
— Francis Quarles
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Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience,…
— Lenny Bruce
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A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.
— Eugene V. Debs
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How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating…
— Gerard De Nerval
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God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in…
— E. Stanley Jones
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
— Carlos Castaneda
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It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
— Louis Nizer
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If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y…
— Neil Peart
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Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked,…
— Peter Abelard
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I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had…
— Mark McGrath
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I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their…
— Keith O'Brien
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I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to…
— Marisha Pessl
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Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are…
— Dan Fogelberg
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