Quotes About Crucifix

#1. One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular, medal, crucifix, or relic of an alleged "saint."

Dave Hunt

#2. For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.

Jean-Marie Lustiger

#3. You can't worship the image or the Crucifix itself. You have to worship God.

Abigail Disney

#4. Lou's was like a tour through Crucifix World with a spontaneous stop in Jesus Country.

Dakota Cassidy

#5. Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh ... And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.

Dan Brown

#6. Someone who visited the Billy Graham Library noticed all the crosses displayed and said to her host, "Where is Jesus? Why isn't He on the cross?" Her host smiled and said, "We do not worship a crucifix. Jesus died on the cross, but He did not stay on the cross ... He lives!

Billy Graham

#7. Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

Bram Stoker

#8. Luisa pointed up at the crucifix on the wall and asked, 'Do you believe in all that?' 'I would like to,' he replied, 'but it is too difficult.' She nodded in agreement and said, 'If the person hanging on it were a woman, then I would believe it.

Louis De Bernieres

#9. His eyes went again to the crucifix above his head, reflected in the mirror. The strained arms, the arched spine. All that effort to open the gates of heaven for us and we (he thought) probably spend out first hours among the heavenly hosts settling old scores with relatives.

Alice McDermott

#10. all the sacristies in town: they trimmed all the cloister hedges; they polished every possible crucifix; they

Thornton Wilder

#11. He touched the rough crucifix that lay against his chest and whispered to the moving air, "Lord, that she might be safe, she and my children." Then turned his cheek to her reaching hand and touched her throught the veils of time.

Diana Gabaldon

#12. The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar.

Elizabeth McCracken

#13. For me, hearing the term 'apply yourself' was like a crucifix to Bella Lugosi's Dracula. 'Ahhh, it burns!'

James Hunter

#14. Place your hopes in the mercy of God and the merits of our Redeemer; say often, looking at the crucifix: There are centered all my hopes.

Paul Of The Cross

#15. The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

Richard Pryor

#16. Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

William Blake

#17. Older sisters are far more powerful than vampires. Not even garlic or a crucifix will keep us away when we're determined to meddle in your affairs.

Teresa Medeiros

#18. You got it, kemo sabe. I'll keep my crucifix close."
"Vampires aren't scared of a crucifix, Finbar."
"I don't plan to wave it at him, I plan to hit him with it. It's really heavy. I figure I can do some considerable damage to his head.

Derek Landy

#19. Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.

Don Feder

#20. Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers?

MaryJanice Davidson

#21. The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.

Kurt Vonnegut

#22. You have the body of a god and the smile of a demon. I walk towards you, barefoot, a believer walking a religious path. I wrap my arms around your neck, a priest hugging his crucifix.
I offer you my all. Burn me like incense.
Let's make all the church bells in hell ring just for us.

Malak El Halabi

#23. silver crucifix in a chain high in the air. "NO!" he yelled. "I command you to leave this body! I command you to leave her now!

Willow Rose

#24. I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

Mitch Albom

#25. Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside it was concealed a stiletto. What a perfect symbol of the Christian religion.

George Orwell

#26. I cannot conceive of a greater wounding of the heart of Christ than to pay reverence to anything in the shape of a cross, or to bow before a crucifix!

Charles Spurgeon

#27. My name is Markowski. I carry a badge. Also a crucifix, some wooden stakes, a big vial of holy water, and a 9mm Beretta loaded with silver bullets.
I was never a Boy Scout but "Be Prepared" is still a good motto to live by. Especially if you plan to keep living.

Justin Gustainis

#28. The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

Pope Francis

#29. Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself.

Dwight L. Moody

#30. Look at a crucifix. This is how I got my bride to heaven. How else do you think you will get yours there?

Jason Evert

#31. Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#32. You've never seen a crucifix with a Jesus who wasn't almost naked. You've never seen a fat Jesus. Or a Jesus with body hair. Every crucifix you've ever seen, the Jesus could be shirtless and modeling designer jeans or men's cologne.

Chuck Palahniuk

#33. Noah presses upon my back to bend me double in preparation for the order. He tosses aside my clogs in order to bind left thumb to right toe, then right thumb to left toe in the form of the holy cross. It has always seemed to me a forgiving God would not condone such abuse of the crucifix.

Janet Graber

#34. Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross.

Rick Yancey

#35. I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

Aberjhani

#36. Taped to her wall, where someone else might hang a crucifix, is a page torn from Rolling Stone: Prince in a misty lavender paradise.

Jardine Libaire

#37. Because their bones are growing, they can only sleep in certain positions, obviously. The crucifix and the swastika tend to be the most popular. Sometimes a combination of the two.

Dylan Moran

#38. I make music to make you sick of fake music hate music like devil worshippin Satan music. So say your prayers your Hail Mary's and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.

Eminem

#39. Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.

Charles Williams

#40. For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ's death with a satanic symbol (cross), and a pagan idol (corpus). This secret has been concealed by the church for centuries after Christ.

Nwaocha Ogechukwu

#41. Sunlight dusts them; Water is damp; Crosses pain them; And beheadings cause cramps -

Thomm Quackenbush

#42. Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar.

John Waters