Top 100 The Cross Quotes
#1. If you want to determine whether God loves you, don't look at your current situation; look to the cross.
Henry T. Blackaby
#2. St John of the Cross told us that if a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. I interpret that as a direction for us to trust in the guidance we receive from our invisible self.
Wayne Dyer
#3. The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#4. Never allow the cross to lose it's centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions, but the ultimate source of hope for every problem we face in our lives is the cross where Jesus died.
Brandon Cox
#5. The love of Christ presses us. The source of the love of Jesus Christ for men is his love for God. Hence he said on Holy Thursday, That the world may know that I love the Father, arise, let us from here. But to where? To die for men upon the cross.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#6. At the cross of Christ, God shows the full expression of both his wrath and his love, as Jesus is stricken, smitten, afflicted, wounded, crushed, and chastised for the sake of sinners.
David Platt
#7. Jesus died on the cross not only so I wouldn't have to go to hell, but also to give me an abundant life on this Earth.
Perry Noble
#8. The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#9. When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#10. Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.
Thomas Watson
#11. Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.
Rose Of Lima
#12. This, then, is our desert: to live facing despair, but not to consent. To trample it down under hope in the Cross. To wage war against despair unceasingly.
Thomas Merton
#13. Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey.
Anthony Of Padua
#14. What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
Flannery O'Connor
#15. Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
Tony Campolo
#16. One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him.
James Kirkwood
#17. I look forward to the day the cross sits discarded beside the swastika as just another reminder of the dangers of blind faith.
Craig Smith
#18. The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
Thomas Carlyle
#19. It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal
carries the cross of the redeemer
not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.
Joseph Campbell
#20. The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.
Heather Morris
#21. The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in their doorways and greet it reverently, the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross.
C.P. Cavafy
#22. The cross. He held one in his hand, gold and shiny in the morning sun. This, too, drove the vampires away.
Why? Was there a logical answer, something he could accept without slipping on banana skins of mysticism?
Richard Matheson
#23. Since the church life is the proper life, it brings in God's blessing. Peace, joy, love, sympathy, kindness, normal living - all are signs of such a blessing of life which comes by the experience of Christ through the cross.
Witness Lee
#24. 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
#25. The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as an honor and privilege.
Richard Alleine
#27. I knew I was crazy because I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar and the part where Jesus carries the cross up the mountain, I actually said to myself, Wow! That must be a really good workout! Yeah, because you're doing arms and cardio!
Margaret Cho
#28. Baptize the nations! far and nigh,The triumphs of the cross recordThe name of Jesus glorify,Till every people call Him Lord.
James Montgomery
#29. 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
#30. We are all of us remarkably goodtempered while we have our own way; but the true meekness, which is a work of grace, will stand the fire of persecution, and will endure the test of enmity, cruelty, and wrong, even as the meekness of Christ did upon the cross of Calvary.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#31. Thus the very purpose of [Christ's] self-giving on the cross was not just to save individuals, and so perpetuate their loneliness, but to create a new community whose members would belong to him, love one another, and eagerly serve the world." 27
Nate Palmer
#32. I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.
Sam Childers
#33. Why didn't you tell me?" Vera looked cautious. "Tell you what? I said he was talented.""Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap-dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor. An ejaculation of truth.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#34. One-third of Matthew ... one-third of Mark ... one-fourth of Luke, and one-half of John are given to [Christ's] death ... Jesus came for the express purpose of dying for sinners. When He left heaven, He knew He was going to the cross.
Billy Graham
#35. When we meet Christ and get on the right side of the cross, our goal isn't to get everyone to think we're perfect and have it all together. Rather, this is where we recognize how much we need Jesus and learn to fall more in love with Him every single day.
Perry Noble
#36. The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries - creeds, atonement theologies - have kept us from experiencing.
John Shelby Spong
#37. As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.
Euvin Naidoo
#38. The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven
Pope Pius XII
#39. The cross of Jesus Christ represents the intersection of God's love and God's holiness.
Robert Jeffress
#40. He did not hang on the cross and shout, "Now live as I have lived!" He shouted, "It is finished!
Tullian Tchividjian
#41. Look at Christ on the cross. Think of the challenge that must have been for Him. The agony of betrayal by people He had trusted, and death. And afterward came the resurrection. He proved that no challenge, no matter how great, could end His love for us.
Danielle Steel
#42. He endured all that hell is on the cross, so that you would never know what hell is like.
Colin S. Smith
#43. The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.
Ravi Zacharias
#44. He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.
L.E. Maxwell
#45. Once you have been to the cross, you will never be the same.
Billy Graham
#47. The cross represents, not light, but hope. The hope that one day, when we actually do perish, we will be taken into the light.
Tyree Campbell
#48. We know that new ideas often come from the cross-fertilisation of different fields, occurring in the mind of a widely knowledgeable person.
Ian Leslie
#49. Sin was conquered on the cross. [Christ's] death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph!
Billy Graham
#50. When satan sees a baby, however, he doesn't see a fragile, sweet, gurgling child; he sees a potential grown-up who is bought by the blood of the lamb and filled with the power of the Holy Ghost, a servant of God and a soldier of the cross, a great threat to his kingdom.
Theresa Pecku-Laryea
#51. When somebody wants to write an article attacking a scoring system or the influence of wine writers, who's right in the cross hairs? It's not Steve Tanzer, it's not Marvin Shanken, it's me. These other people, it's not like they don't have some influence, and I'm more than happy to share it.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#52. Guilt is not Jesus' medium. He is battling for global redemption right now; His objective hardly includes huddling in the corner with us, rehashing our shame again. He finished that discussion on the cross. Plus, there's no time for that.
Jen Hatmaker
#53. I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers cooking cabbage. "A servant of servants shall she be," must have been spoken of women, not Negroes.
Jane Swisshelm
#54. We Boast Best in the Cross When We Bear It
John Piper
#55. Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take not only as to whether or not the old creation, including everything which comes by birth, has gone through the cross.
Watchman Nee
#56. My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.
Vincent Nichols
#57. Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
T.D. Jakes
#58. All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.
Saint Augustine
#59. Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.
Robert Barron
#60. I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
Mother Jones
#61. No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.
Pope Leo I
#62. We are not, therefore, to regard the cross as defeat and the resurrection as victory. Rather, the cross was the victory won, and the resurrection the victory endorsed, proclaimed and demonstrated.
John R.W. Stott
#63. Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?
Max Lucado
#64. He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a consolation; for God abounds with grace to all those who carry the cross with good will in order to please him.
Alphonsus Liguori
#65. Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.
Billy Sunday
#66. It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.
Shane Claiborne
#67. Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don't really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.
C.J. Mahaney
#68. The most pressing problem facing America can't be solved in Washington DC. True hope and change can't be found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It can only be found at the foot of the cross on Calvary.
Todd Starnes
#69. It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.
Franklin Graham
#70. Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#71. Love and sacrifice are not the same thing, but they are inseparable. To think of Christ and to think of the Cross is not the same thing, but the association is so close that the implication is immediate. Where love has been preached without sacrifice, it has not led to love but to license.
Hubert Van Zeller
#72. At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
E. Stanley Jones
#73. There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.
J.C. Ryle
#74. Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.
Timothy Keller
#75. Any step away from the cross is a step in the wrong direction.
Greg Laurie
#76. When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
Dan Hawkins
#77. At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love (CCC 1022; by St. John of the Cross)
San Juan De La Cruz
#78. Waiting for one's execution is worse than dying. To seek my beheading is glory. Who went to his execution willingly? Jesus did. Jesus even dragged his cross half way to Golgotha. I think he would have nailed himself to the cross if he had to.
Stefan Emunds
#79. God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.
Timothy Keller
#80. It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist's hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#81. Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us.
Pope Benedict XVI
#82. It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#83. Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress.
Troy Polamalu
#84. It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.
Walter Lippmann
#85. In this view the body itself, with its two arms and vertical length, was compared to the Cross, on which you knew the agony of consciousness and separate being.
Saul Bellow
#86. The heart of the Christian Gospel with its incarnation and atonement is in the cross and the resurrection. Jesus was born to die.
Billy Graham
#87. Faith is an action. He (one criminal on the cross) puts himself one step lower than where he was, sharing Jesus' place of poverty, insecurity, and the focus of rage. Remember me. And he will be remembered, because of his association with the Crucified One.
Megan McKenna
#88. She thought of the Good Shepherd with His sheep. Of the Man hanging upon the cross. And the understanding bubbled up within her soul: He makes all things new.
Alicia G. Ruggieri
#89. At the cross, we see the worst that sin can do, as humanity - of which each one of us is a part - crucified the Lord. But at the cross, we also see that the most that sin can do cannot thwart God's salvation.
Timothy Keller
#90. He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes.
Emile Zola
#91. In Christ alone, and His payment of the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, we find reconciliation to God and ultimate meaning and purpose.
Dave Hunt
#92. God's love did not begin at the cross. It began in eternity before the world was established, before the time clock of civilization began to move.
Billy Graham
#93. The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.
Robert Anderson
#95. Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#96. For him, to get one's bearings on the world meant to conceive all its contents as simultaneous, and to guess at their interrelationships in the cross-section of a single moment. This
Mikhail Bakhtin
#97. In the world's economy, life precedes death. In God's economy, death precedes life - the cross always precedes the crown.
Tullian Tchividjian
#98. The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#99. Christ's own 'God-forsaken-ness' on the cross showed me where God is present where God had been present in those nights of deaths in the fire storms in Hamburg and where God would be present in my future whatever may come.
Jurgen Moltmann
#100. Christ was liberated on the cross through spiritual centers located where the nails are said to have been driven, and elsewhere.
Max Heindel
