Quotes About Cruciform

#1. the church sacrifices the beauty of Christianity when it chooses the political form over the cruciform. Reaching for the ring of power distorts our beauty.

Brian Zahnd

#2. 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

#3. This was, without a doubt, the cruciform of which the Bikura spoke. And it had been set here a minimum of many thousands of years ago - perhaps tens of thousands - long before mankind first left Old Earth. Almost certainly before Christ taught in Galilee. I

Dan Simmons

#4. The cross is the crux, the crossroads, the twisted knot at the center of reality, to which all previous history leads and from which all subsequent history flows. By it we know all reality is cruciform - the love of God, the shape of creation, the labyrinth of human history.

Peter J. Leithart

#5. The most visible form of Jesus's not-of-this-world kingdom is the radical, head-turning love of one's enemies, even (or especially) when we are suffering at their hands. Peter mentions this cruciform enemy-love no fewer than ten times in five chapters, making it the artery of the letter.

Preston Sprinkle

#6. We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. ... Christ's cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!

Catherine Doherty

#7. A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

Boris Pasternak

#8. The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground of consolation amidst the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good.

Octavius Winslow

#9. In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the biggest source of invention. Nobody can invent better than nature and so if you like nature is my biggest source of inspiration.

Ken Yeang

#10. Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

Tom G. Palmer

#11. I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.

Herb Kelleher

#12. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Emma Donoghue

#13. You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's going to happen, and then all of a sudden the glaciers are creeping down on you.

Paul Di Filippo

#14. One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.

Nora Ephron

#15. It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things.

Tom Kite