Jesus Suffering On The Cross Quotes

#1. The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#3. What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#4. We are closest to Christ when sharing the world's misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get that notion? The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond. We can overcome our travails. That is the promise of the cross.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#5. In every race, in every nation, and in every clime in every period of history there is always an eager-eyed group of youthful patriots who seriously set themselves to right the wrongs done to their race or nation or ... art or self-expression.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#6. All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.

Saint Augustine

#7. It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#8. It is You Jesus, stretched out on the cross, who gives me strength and are always close to the suffering soul. Creatures will abandon a person in his suffering, but You, O Lord, are faithful ...

Mary Faustina Kowalska

#9. Faith is an action. He (one criminal on the cross) puts himself one step lower than where he was, sharing Jesus' place of poverty, insecurity, and the focus of rage. Remember me. And he will be remembered, because of his association with the Crucified One.

Megan McKenna

#10. Make a little bouquet of the sufferings of Jesus and carry them in the bosom of the soul.

Paul Of The Cross

#11. You don't have to earn or deserve love. You are love. Loving is never about how others treat you. It is always about how you are treating yourself.

Rhonda Britten

#12. Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.

Richard J. Foster

#13. The cross is the place where heaven meets earth and grace erupts. The cross is the place where Jesus does not simply meet our suffering, but becomes our suffering so as to transform the world.

Matt Farlow

#14. It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

Jon Landau

#15. We must be so careful that we do not refuse the cross that the Lord has given us to carry. Let us remember that our present sufferings serve to prepare us for entering into the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Corrie Ten Boom

#16. Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.

Pope John Paul II

#17. Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you're either very lucky person or you're not.

George Harrison

#18. Would it be worth it to pick up my cross and be crucified next to Jesus? If He is not God, then, no. Lose everything I love to worship a false God? A million times over, no!

But if He is God, then yes. Being forever bonded to my Lord by suffering alongside Him? A million times over, yes!

Nabeel Qureshi

#19. O endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#20. Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!

Billy Graham

#21. Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth.

Tahir Shah

#22. Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#23. Saul fell upon his sword to avoid suffering. Jesus stretched himself upon the cross to take away ours.
Saul's suicide cheated his enemies. Jesus' sacrifice cheated death.

Lisa Bevere

#24. Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

John Calvin

#25. Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#26. It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time.

Cornel West

#27. Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to
Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#28. I was my own person, complete in and of myself.

Meg North

#29. Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used the Word. When he was suffering on the cross he used the Word.

Timothy Keller

#30. In His thirty-three years on earth, Jesus suffered with man; on the cross He suffered for man.

Billy Graham

#31. When things go wrong and will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night,
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

Flann O'Brien

#32. Why must we suffer? Because here below pure Love cannot exist without suffering. O Jesus, Jesus, I no longer feel my cross when I think of yours.

Bernadette Soubirous