1.
Don't let bridges you cross be bridges you burn.
J. Cole
Do not destroy the pathways you have taken.
2.
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
Edith Stein
One cannot seek exemption from the burden of destiny when one is especially selected for the Cross.
3.
When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?
Amy Carmichael
When reflecting on Jesus' crucifixion, how can my own offerings be viewed as anything beyond trifling?
4.
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
Edith Stein
Typically one is burdened with an even greater load when trying to shed an existing one.
5.
[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
Joan of Arc
Raise the crucifix high so I may witness it through the fire.
6.
Jesus didn't die on the cross to BLESS our life, He did it to CHANGE our life.
Chris Brown
7.
I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
8.
The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.
Pope Benedict XVI
9.
No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
Martin Luther
10.
I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.
Adoniram Judson
12.
The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.
Philip Neri
14.
Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
Watchman Nee
15.
It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.
Franklin Graham
16.
I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live.
Gannicus
17.
Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.
John Scott
18.
Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.
Nikolai Berdyaev
19.
Any step away from the cross is a step in the wrong direction.
Greg Laurie
20.
If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.
Doris Roberts
21.
Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together.
J. Sidlow Baxter
22.
A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one who can create your own path. Walk on your own. If you haven't given up yet, that is.
Katsura Hoshino
24.
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses...
Zack de la Rocha
27.
It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
John Stott
28.
I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.
Che Guevara
31.
The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.
John Calvin
32.
The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.
Pope Leo I
33.
If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.
Lee Trevino
34.
If we die without making peace with God through His precious blood which was shed for us on the cross surely we shall end up in hellfire.
Bakht Singh
35.
If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you
Suge Knight
36.
The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.
R. Kent Hughes
39.
Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
J. C. Ryle
40.
The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
D. A. Carson
41.
God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.
Amy Carmichael
43.
At the foot of the cross, there are no racial barriers.
Billy Graham
44.
At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us.
Steven J Lawson
45.
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
Pope John Paul II
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
John Vianney
48.
If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.
R. C. Sproul
49.
There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.
Michael Ondaatje