Quotes On Cross Bearing

#1. 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

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

Vance Havner

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. She's only got eight fingers but she's got them stuck in all kinds of pies, and she keeps her thumbs bare for testing new ones.

Catherine Cookson

#6. Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Eric Hoffer

#7. 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

#8. I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow ... I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. 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

#10. With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.

Charles Darwin

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#12. The book, and its offspring the periodical, which hold more knowledge than one human memory can retain, have long served as extensions to human memories.

Frederick G. Kilgour

#13. You shall leave everything you love.

Dante Alighieri

#14. 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

#15. People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.

Karen Maitland

#16. I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

Helen Mirren

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

Mark Twain

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Thomas A Kempis

#24. white or black. rich or poor. if you ever had your heart broken you have right to sing the blues

Big Mama Thornton

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

Ann B. Ross

#26. 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

#27. When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.

Medard Boss

#28. 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

#29. The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

David Ayer

#30. 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

#31. As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.

Henry David Thoreau

#32. ...for no matter whether the relationship was of short or long duration, no matter whether the partners were rich or poor, gay or straight, young or old, living together or married, giving up the relationship was hard for both people.

Diane Vaughan

#33. 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

#34. 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