Quotes About Bearing The Cross

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Wonder shows in the light of our eyes. Without it, they become dull and old.

Goldie Hawn

#5. That's what life is, a series of fuck-ups and what you make of 'em.

Stevie J. Cole

#6. 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

#7. There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Willie Stargell

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. I have a terrible memory.

Dorothy Allison

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#12. 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

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

Vance Havner

#14. So she fixes things by thinking about them!

Kim Stanley Robinson

#15. Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun.

N.J. Hallard

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Thomas A Kempis

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

Ann B. Ross

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.

Gore Vidal

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.

Nicholas Sparks

#27. Cats are independent, by which I mean smart.

Dave Barry

#28. Powerful Leaders plan from the heart; 1st the WHY in their passion, 2nd the HOW it could unfold, 3rd the WHAT wins they will celebrate!

Michael Walker

#29. 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

#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. Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.

John Petrucci