Quotes About Bearing A Cross

#1. Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.

Jennifer Armintrout

#2. We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.

Vance Havner

#3. Okay???
I didn't had a word to replace that?!

Deyth Banger

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

Thomas A Kempis

#5. She must jump from square to square, right leg first, then left, then both together, and make a show of caring whether or not she steps on a line. She must go on jumping day after day, bearing the burden of time on her shoulders like a cross that grows heavier from day to day.

Milan Kundera

#6. The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing
but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone.
Why alone?
He's alone so that we might never be alone.

C.J. Mahaney

#7. Somewhere in heaven, you're on a live video Web site for God to surf.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story ... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western.

Gus Van Sant

#9. I believe there is an obedience to the Gospel, there is a self-denial and a bearing of the cross, if you are to be a follower of Christ. Being a Christian is a serious business.

Billy Graham

#10. Constantine saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the sun, and bearing this inscription: conquer by this. At the sight, he himself was struck with amazement and his whole army also.

Eusebius

#11. The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#12. Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.

John Stott

#13. Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. There are not two Christs
an easygoing one for easygoing Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are you willing to abide in Him, and thus to bear much fruit?

Hudson Taylor

#14. Never forget that the road to Heaven is the Way of the Cross. Jesus has called us to follow Him, bearing the Cross as He did.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#15. The cross is the suffering love of God bearing the guilt of man's sin, which alone is able to melt the sinner's heart and bring him to repentance for salvation. "For he hath made him to be sin for us" [2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV].

Billy Graham

#16. Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future ... In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship means a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross.

Billy Graham

#17. we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else's opinions if we know who we are

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring.

Ann B. Ross

#19. We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.

Edward Snowden

#20. What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.

Vance Havner

#21. Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog.

Ridley Pearson

#22. I have come to realize my need to take the New Testament witness seriously that groaning and grief and feeling broken are legitimate ways for me to express my cross-bearing discipleship to Jesus. It's not as if groaning means I am somehow doing something wrong. Groaning is a sign of my fidelity.

Wesley Hill

#23. There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Helen Keller

#24. Why seekest thou rest when thou art born to labour? Prepare thyself for patience more than for comforts, and for bearing the cross more than for joy.

Thomas A Kempis

#25. The redhead could sling mud at him and he'd get hard.

Robin Glasser

#26. Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.

Peter Wessel Zapffe

#27. If our current barbaric world spirals into greater corruption and brutality, our descendants may become so cruel and so morally perverse that they cross time to watch us suffer, bearing orgasmic witness to the bloodbaths from which their sick civilization grew.

Dean Koontz

#28. One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.

Frederick Wiseman

#29. The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#30. Bearing our cross does not mean wearing gunny sacks and long faces. Some people ... wear the look of a martyr every time they hear criticism. Sometimes we deserve the criticism we receive; however, we are blessed only when men speak evil against us falsely for Christ's sake.

Billy Graham

#31. Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

Rick Warren

#32. Life is not kind. Who are you trying to kid, Kendall? He sighed.

Holly Hood

#33. Whatever I feel comfortable in is usually what I'll wear. I go to different events and premieres and walk the red carpet ... those things are awkward enough on their own. You don't want to be pulling up a top all night. I will sacrifice foot comfort though. I love high heels.

Mandy Moore