Best Crucifixion Sayings
85 Crucifixion quotes by 71 unique authors
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Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.
— Alexander Theroux
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The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
— Simone Weil
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When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world…
— Vivienne Westwood
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Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a…
— John Steinbeck
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Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom…
— Thomas Merton
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Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for…
— Joseph Campbell
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It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most…
— Betty Smith
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A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.
— Andrew Murray
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God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!
— Alan Bennett
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What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock . . .
— Joss Whedon
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The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It…
— Francis Schaeffer
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I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
— Lou Holtz
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Public crucifixion is no fun.
— Peter O'Toole
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The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal them; others came…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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What is holy for us, humans, now? What can we love the most in this first century of the third millennium, in these first years…
— Sorin Cerin
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