Quotes on Crosses

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?

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.

The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.

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

At the foot of the cross, there are no racial barriers.

Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross!

In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.

Jesus’ Cross shows the full force of evil, but also the full power of God’s mercy.

The cross alone is our theology.

Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It's a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you - the Mystery. The one that can never be solved.

The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.

Jesus Christ conferred power upon Peter, but what sort of power was it? Jesus’ three questions to Peter about love are followed by three commands: feed my lambs, feed my sheep. Let us never forget that authentic power is service, and that the Pope too, when exercising power, must enter ever more fully into that service which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.

Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.

There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us.

Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.

Now I begin to be a disciple. Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.