Inspirational Quotes on Cross

“One might say I had decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife. Out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world. So perhaps I have an obligation to preserve the stillness, the silence, the poverty, the virginal point of pure nothingness which is at the center of all other loves. I attempt to cultivate this plant without contempt in the middle of the night and water it with psalms and prophecies in silence. It becomes the most rare of all the trees in the garden, at once the primordial paradise tree, the axis mundi, the cosmic axle, and the Cross. Nulla silva talem profert. There is only one such tree. It cannot be multiplied. It is not interesting.”

“The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross. But his deformity is our comeliness. In this life, therefore, let us hold fast to the deformed Christ.”

“And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime, And as each blow was paid with Blood, You paid me also each great sin with greater graces. For even as I killed You, You made Yourself a greater thief than any in Your company, Stealing my sins into Your dying life, Robbing me even of my death.”

“A marriage that isn't built around the Cross will be devoid of grace, mercy, and humility that come when both husband and wife recognize their need for a savior.”

“o endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.”

“To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact.”

“As we face the cross, then, we can say to ourselves both, “I did it, my sins sent him there,” and “He did it, his love took him there.”

“The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community.”

“The cross always simultaneously means rejection, and that the disgrace of suffering is part of the cross. Being expelled, despised, and abandoned by people in one's suffering is part of the cross. Being expelled, despised, and abandoned by people in one's suffering, as we find in the unending lament of the psalmist, is an essential feature of the suffering of the cross, yet one no longer comprehensible to a form of Christian life unable to distinguish between bourgeois and Christian existence.”

“That it is Peter, the rock of the church, who incurs guilt here immediately after his own confession to Jesus Christ and after his appointment by Jesus, means that from its very inception the church itself has taken offense at the suffering Christ. It neither wants such a Lord nor does it, as the Church of Christ, want its Lord to force upon it the law of suffering.”

“Self-denial means knowing only Christ, and no longer oneself. It means seeing only Christ, who goes ahead of us, and no longer the path that is too difficult for us… . Self-denial is saying only: He goes ahead of us; hold fast to him.”

“We are [God's] by creation, and again by redemption. He has every right to tell me what to do with my mind and body. I have. I right to do whatever I want with my body.”

“Remember, God placed man on earth and gave him dominion over the earth to cultivate and steward it. The fall of man subjected the earth to the same corruption as the hearts of man, but the work Jesus did on the cross set the course for the reversal of this process and the return to our intended mandate. Instead, we as Christians tend to sit back while those who do not know the Lord cultivate and dominate the earth. This is not wrong. They are in fact doing what they were created to do, but they are doing it under a different master. Consider what the world would look like if we took up our God-given mandate and released, by restoration, the glory of creation to a watching world!”

“The cross is not the suffering tied to being natural existence, but the suffering tied to being Christians. The cross is never simply a matter of suffering, but a matter of suffering and rejection, and even, strictly speaking, rejection for the sake of Jesus Christ, not for the sake of some other arbitrary behavior or confession.”

“The worst things of Christ, His reproaches, His cross, are better than Egypt's treasures.”

“O mundo antigo empregava várias polaridades para descrever a humanidade: romanos e bárbaros, judeus e gentios, escravos e livres. Todavia, nesta passagem, Paulo apresentou a única polaridade que tem importância crucial; ele distinguiu os que perecem e os que são salvos. A linha divisória entre os dois grupos é a mensagem da cru: ‘A palavra da cruz é loucura para os que se perdem, mas para nós, que somos salvos, poder de Deus’ (1Co 1. 18).”

“Somos incapazes no que diz respeito a lidar com nosso pecado e sermos reconciliados com Deus; mas, onde somos incapazes, Deus é poderoso. A insensatez e a sabedoria humana são igualmente incapazes de alcançar o que Deus realizou na cruz.”

“O evangelho não é apenas um conjunto de bons conselhos também não é boas notícias a respeito do poder de Deus. O evangelho é o poder de Deus para aqueles que creem. A cruz é o lugar em que Deus destruiu completamente toda a arrogância e pretensão dos homens.”

“O argumento de Paulo é que nenhuma filosofia popular, nenhuma ‘sabedoria’ aceita por todos, pode ter importância duradoura, se o seu âmago não é a cruz. Não importa quais sejam os méritos ou os deméritos desses vários sistemas, eles exaurem seus recursos em níveis superficiais. Não reconciliam os homens e mulheres com o Deus vivo. E nada é mais importante do que isso. Esses sistemas não podem desvendar a sabedoria de Deus na cruz. E, se a cruz está oculta, todas as outras sabedorias são tolice. Onde está o sábio?”

“A thousand sorrows prepares a man to preach.”