Quotes about Cross

The word of God is upon me, [and] it's like fire shut up in my bones. And I just have to tell it." What King had to tell was the truth about war, racism, and poverty. "It may hurt me," he said. "But when I took up the cross I recognized its meaning... It is not something that you wear. The cross is something that you bear and ultimately that you die on."

All God's righteous hatred of all that sin from all of human history was poured out upon Christ as He hung there on that cross.

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

The cross of Christ is the response of God to men for belittling His name.

The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.

To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker.