Top 100 Quotes About Crosses
#1. And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I'll kill him for you. From anyone else, it would have been an idle threat, and I smiled, feeling loved. (Ivy and Rachel)
Kim Harrison
#2. So why did you want to kiss me?"
"We're friends aren't we?" Callum shrugged.
I relaxed into a smile. "Of course we are."
"And if you can't kiss your friends who can you kiss?" Callum smiled.
Malorie Blackman
#3. What I am getting at is that there is a point at which efficiency crosses over into lunacy, and the savings in money or resources cease to be worthwhile in light of the price paid in other ways.
Mary Roach
#4. Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.
Sri Aurobindo
#6. Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death, thinking what are they in
comparison of the sufferings of my blessed Savior Christ Jesus.
Martin Luther
#7. The more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.
John Calvin
#8. Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.
Thom Yorke
#10. God can be found only in suffering and the cross.
Martin Luther
#11. I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate.
Michael Nutter
#12. A three-legged dog
successfully crosses the road
to a new location
where there is greener grass
to piss on
Wesley Eisold
#13. There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
Charles Spurgeon
#14. Belief." He snorted. "I could kiss a thousand crosses. Fucking belief.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#15. The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.
John Calvin
#17. You are the driver steering your own dreams. Choose to knock down whatever crosses your way.
Israelmore Ayivor
#18. When you die, your soul crosses the Dusk between life and the Blank Sea. The journey takes forty-nine days,
David Mitchell
#19. Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.
Charles Spurgeon
#20. Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#21. The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.
Philip Neri
#22. Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.
Charles Spurgeon
#23. Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all. - Folk rhyme
Cassandra Clare
#25. The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.
Ferdinand Porsche
#26. With a ring around the rosary
And a pocket full of crosses
Ashes to ashes
They'll all fall down
Matthew Fitzpatrick
#27. Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.
Francois Fenelon
#29. Never expect any recognition here
the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.
Franz Grillparzer
#30. I visualize a day when tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses. I have a legacy to fulfill, and it will be fulfilled.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#31. The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.
Francois Fenelon
#32. The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.
Victor LaValle
#33. The mighty lion toys with the mouse that crosses his path - any other reaction would mar his fearsome reputation.
Robert Greene
#34. Mike was right: the pattern of life isn't a straight line; it crosses and recrosses, drawing in and tying together other lives, as I do when I gather in the ends of my thread to make a knot.
Benedict Freedman
#35. The cross is the great jewel of the Christian faith and like every great jewel it has many precious facets that are each worthy of examining for their brilliance and beauty.
Mark Driscoll
#36. Where we goin'? Wade whispers to me as we approach the white picket fence that surrounds the row of wooden crosses.
For all I know my grandmother could be planning to shoot us and bury us with the rest of the family, but I don't think it would help to share this notion with Wade
Carolee Dean
#37. Holy symbols like crosses and blessed water occasionally have an effect, but are dependent upon the personal faith of the user. Most Hunters opt for violence over faith; we're kind of like soccer fans that way.
Larry Correia
#38. If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.
Lee Trevino
#39. Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
Ja Rule
#40. He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
#41. Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.
Samuel Rutherford
#42. I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.
Lynn Woolsey
#43. Your role during the prayer of consecration is crucial, helping the mass appear reverent and planned. Match the presider as he crosses himself and when he bows. Learn the liturgical style of your clergy so you will follow each one seamlessly; their practices vary.
Beth Wickenberg Ely
#44. Adieu, sucky speed-reading critics and reviewers!"
Terry Dare, gothic author in Blatty's book "Elsewhere", just before he crosses over.
William Peter Blatty
#46. Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
John Piper
#47. When you find yourself about to say something that crosses a line, something that could cause irreparable harm, sometimes the best you can do is just not say that thing.
Tammara Webber
#48. It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the path of your life. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter. It is our glory to trust Him, no matter what.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#50. Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and crosses, strains and pains that we must endure on earth if we are going to follow Christ faithfully. Regard preparedness to die as the first step in learning to live.
Joel Beeke
#51. Relationships don't dissolve over one event, one fight, it's a thousand blows, delivered over time, uppercuts, jabs, crosses, some you barely even feel, and then before you know it, you're on the ground seeing stars and wondering what the hell happened!
Colleen Oakley
#53. Mouth of teeth on him like a vandalised graveyard but we all have our crosses.
Kevin Barry
#54. But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.
Peter Watts
#55. Moonlight making crosses on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.
Richard Siken
#56. Beneath the red crosses was another insignia: CHP. California Highway Patrol. They were State Troopers.
Cory Doctorow
#57. Jesus was treated on the cross as if He lived our life, so by grace we could be treated as if we lived His life. Hallelujah what a Savior!
Steve Camp
#58. Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross roads.
Isaac Newton
#59. Everyone who crosses your path leaves behind something. How you use it is up to you.
Barbara Svetlick
#60. Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.
Neil Young
#61. Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?
Kevin DeYoung
#62. Some version of 'Deal or No Deal' airs in 120 countries. And they play it exactly the same way, with models and briefcases. It crosses language and culture and gender, because it's the simplest game in the world, and everyone wants to press their luck.
Howie Mandel
#63. However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.
Teresa Of Avila
#64. Our crosses are our rights ... Because life is not about me, because this world is not my home, because I'm tired of defending myself, and because the God of the universe is my Defender.
Jennie Allen
#65. The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.
Max Frisch
#66. Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.
Gautama Buddha
#67. She wasn't the first, nor the last. These are the women he crosses paths with. He doesn't become her destiny, nor she his. They are his episodes, and luckily he too is just an episode. He wanders along on the fringes of danger, and nibbles at them.
Joseph Roth
#68. I see a Latino comic as someone who can only perform for Latino audiences. I cross the board.
Gabriel Iglesias
#69. I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.
Ann Widdecombe
#70. Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.
Zack De La Rocha
#71. I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely ... gone.
Meghan O'Rourke
#72. The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.
Alistair Begg
#73. We need an army of white-haired, wild-eyed radicals cutting a swath against the sexism that crosses our paths. It is a good antidote to the larger community's apparent belief that older women are slightly dotty, grandmotherly, benign souls.
Shari Graydon
#75. A man shows himself a true disciple of Christ by carrying the cross in his turn every day in the activity that he is called to perform.
Pope John Paul II
#76. But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#77. From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands
and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.
Pablo Neruda
#78. Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else.
Philip Kerr
#79. Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High school dropout issues. But because of the flow of events which involve the racial component, we've sometimes confused racial issues with other issues which are trans-racial.
David Brooks
#80. The kind of person I find myself interested in is a cross between being very emotionally complex and very immature. That's what I felt I was like when I was younger.
Dan Chaon
#81. I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
Max Beckmann
#82. Prayer is where the cross changes shoulders.
Mark Hart
#83. What a ferocious creature you are," St. Vincent said, laughing. "I pity Westcliff if he crosses you again. In fact, I think I should warn him ...
Lisa Kleypas
#85. Don't let bridges you cross be bridges you burn.
J. Cole
#86. I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.
Rick Springfield
#87. We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth.
Mark Levin
#88. If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
Teresa Of Avila
#89. Neither deficiencies nor disappointments, losses nor crosses, can cause disquieting discontents in that bosom where faith is commander in chief.
Thomas Watson
#90. Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
Nadine Gordimer
#91. I fear the line between myself and madness is as fine these days as a cobweb, and I have seen what it means when a soul crosses over into that dim and wretched place.
Geraldine Brooks
#92. If you want to speak to someone you cannot touch, see, or hear, the voice of love will transmit with or without a phone. It crosses all borders and travels through time and walls.
Julieanne O'Connor
#93. There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#94. It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him.
Vincent De Paul
#95. They who have believed in the Holy One of Israel, they who have endured the crosses of the world, and despised the shame of it, they shall inherit the kingdom of God, which was prepared for them from the foundation of the world, and their joy shall be full forever.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#97. [Once war is declared, he will not waste precious time in waiting for reinforcements, nor will he return his army back for fresh supplies, but crosses the enemy's frontier without delay.
Sun Tzu
#98. Life is like walking along a crowded street
there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement
and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.
Thomas Huxley
#99. The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.
George S. Patton
#100. On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel.
Bryan Hayes
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