Burned Quote by Ed King

The church is the cross that Christ was crucified on.

— Tripp York

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until…

— Philip Yancey

Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered…

— Tacitus

I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love.

— Therese of Lisieux

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“As in the days of the first Merovingian, who pledged allegiance to the cross because of a victorious battle, today's children of the banalized…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Too often in its history the church confused Christ and Caesar. Jesus became a tool of violence and oppression: the cross became a symbol…

— Bruce G. Epperly

“All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Their Bibles had become an idol before God. That the cross, as a symbol, was an idol, even their own self-image was an idol…

— Trevor D. Richardson

If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the…

— L. E. Maxwell

“The church is never more in danger than when it sees itself simply as the solution-bearer and forgets that every day it too must…

— N.T. Wright

The last Christian died on a cross.

— Friedrich Nietzsche