Quotes about Cross
If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.
- Brennan Manning
In the manger God loves you; through the cross God saves you. But has he taken you to his home? Not yet.
- Max Lucado
In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.
- Pope Benedict XVI
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
- John Stott
Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.
- Thomas a Kempis
Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater-the love of God.
- Billy Graham
What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I'd learned that you can't wear a crown unless you bear a cross - that if our Savior had learned obedience through suffering, we should expect the same.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.
- Eugene Peterson
We do not qualify as biblical simply by quoting the Bible. We are biblical only when we share life in the wilderness with those who are tempted and fall, when we carry the cross of Jesus, and when we love extravagantly in Jesus's name.
- Eugene Peterson
Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation.
- Eugene Peterson
The gospel offers a different view of suffering: in suffering we enter the depths; we are at the heart of things; we are near to where Christ was on the cross.
- Eugene Peterson