Way Crosses Quotes

#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

#5. We are just about to cross the 400 parts per million threshold.

Christiana Figueres

#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

#9. To a Christian, power and authority are nothing but crosses.

Tikhon Of Zadonsk

#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

#16. Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?

Anthony Kennedy

#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

#24. No one can out-sin the cross of Christ.

Matt Chandler

#25. The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.

Ferdinand Porsche

#26. Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

Francois Fenelon

#27. The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. The mighty lion toys with the mouse that crosses his path - any other reaction would mar his fearsome reputation.

Robert Greene

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.

Lee Trevino

#38. 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

#39. He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Horace

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. Adieu, sucky speed-reading critics and reviewers!"
Terry Dare, gothic author in Blatty's book "Elsewhere", just before he crosses over.

William Peter Blatty

#44. Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.

Anthony De Mello

#45. Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises

John Piper

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

Charles Spurgeon

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

Lauren Groff

#56. Sephy told me once that I was the only one who could make her cry. I've never told this to her, or to anyone else for the matter, but it works the other way round as well.
- callum mcgregor/noughts&crosses

Malorie Blackman

#57. If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if I try to use public property or a public school as a way to impress my religion on other people, I think that violates the constitution.

John Shelby Spong

#58. Have you seen the careful manner in which deer drink from a lake at sunrise? That is the way she moves. Have you ever heard the sound a shooting star makes as it crosses a cloudy sky? That is the way she breathes.

S.M. White

#59. The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[ ... ]

Werner Herzog

#60. Life is a race, and what matters most isn't when a person crosses the finish line, but how strong they've grown along the way.

Jen Stephens

#61. By the way, if I have my own cult of personality with my own geodetic dome in western Massachusetts, I will have a hurt yurt for anyone who crosses me.

John Hodgman

#62. But the Good Book said a lot of things. Like 'love thy neighbor' and ' do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. If nothing else, wasn't the message of the Good Book to live and let live? So how could the Crosses call themselves 'God's chosen' and still treat us the way they did?

Malorie Blackman

#63. FYI, car crashes kill way more kids than cancer does. Those crosses you see on the side of the highway, the little white ones hung with fading silk flowers? They're for people my age. ("People who were texting," my dad liked to remind me - because he never wanted to blame Budweiser for anything.)

James Patterson

#64. We lose our way around the Bible when we take our eyes off the Cross.

Alistair Begg

#65. To me, Twitter seems like a way for people to just let the world know about the most mundane bullshit that crosses their mind.

Phil Elvrum

#66. That's the best way to cross the Atlantic.

Arthur Whitten Brown

#67. Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And a good God must have made it-leastways, that is what I say, When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort of way.

James Whitcomb Riley

#68. Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.

Gaston Bachelard

#69. A rocket or a bridge. That's the only way I can really describe it. If there is a river between our sleeping bodies, this is the bridge that crosses it. ... I can just fit my fist around the base without waking him. I love it so much I want to bite it.

Lawrence Chua

#70. Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.

Richard Pryor