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Crosses Quotes by John Stott
- Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am…
- The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.
- Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
- The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship…
- At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order…
- The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks…
- The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when…
- No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.
- The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly…
- When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is the…
- All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the…
- Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.
- The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship…
- The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.
- It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
- At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
- Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order…
- Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
More Crosses Quotes
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would,… — Diane Ackerman
- I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you… — Kevin Bacon
- If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face… — William Barclay
- We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time. — Bernard Baruch
- When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. — Frederic Bastiat
- The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. — Alfred Adler
- Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the… — Joe Biden
- After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. — Buffalo Bill