Quotes about Cross

Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

Imagine if the electric chair or gas chamber had people kneeling around it with no thought of the horrific purpose it once held! But in effect, this is exactly what happened with the cross. No other religion in history has ever used an emblem of horror for its enduring brand. Whether we want to or not, all of us must pick up some kind of cross and follow Jesus into suffering.

One cannot pass without interruption from Christ to the Church. The Cross stands between. In being the Body of Christ, the Church meets her Lord; she does not prolong Him, but she expresses Him here and now. She does not replace Him, but makes Him visible, demonstrates Him without being confounded with Him.

How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth.

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.

The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.

Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Christ has done everything necessary for us to be free. He wants us to be free so much that He gave Himself as a ransom to die on a cross. Then He gave Himself to us. We are one with Christ because our souls are in union with Him. There is nothing else God needs to do for us to be free.