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“The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.”
Source: It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News
“The cross alone is our theology.”
Source: The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther, the Hero of the Reformation, the Greatest of the Teuton Church Fathers, and the Father of Protestant Church Literature. Based on the Kaiser Chronological Ed. with Reference to the Erlangen and Walch Eds
“The cross always simultaneously means rejection, and that the disgrace of suffering is part of the cross. Being expelled, despised, and abandoned by people in one's suffering is part of the cross. Being expelled, despised, and abandoned by people in one's suffering, as we find in the unending lament of the psalmist, is an essential feature of the suffering of the cross, yet one no longer comprehensible to a form of Christian life unable to distinguish between bourgeois and Christian existence.”
“The cross asks of you: sacrifice.
The cross asks of you: perseverance.
The cross asks of you: pain.
The cross asks of you: humility.
The cross asks of you: forgiveness.
The cross offers you perfect love.”
Source: A TALK WITH GOD TODAY: SPIRITUAL GROWTH IN 4 WEEKS
“The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.”
“The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!”
Source: Weight of Glory
“The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and religious values. The cross radically disrupts the very center and citadel of your life from self to Christ. And if the cross has not done that, you're not a Christian!”
“The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.”
Source: Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons
“The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion, no weakness, no foolishness, no evil of heart that the cross can't defeat and grace can't transform.”
“the cross had slipped back onto my chest. I unclasped it and after wrapping the chain around the metal, tucked it into my bra”
“The cross has never been compatible to any culture. Its preaching has always established a counter-culture. Jesus Christ is timeless. He is not the product of any human culture and thus has never been enmeshed in any one culture. He both transforms and transcends culture.”
Source: The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition
“The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?”
“The cross is a precious treasure to be kept secret, lest we be robbed of it.”
“The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need.”
“The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.”
“The cross is bigger than your mistakes, bigger than your regrets, bigger than the secrets you hold. The cross stands above it all.”
“The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.”
Source: Sex God
“The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.”
“The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.”
Source: Sex God
“The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!”
“The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.”
“The cross is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering which every man must experience is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. It is that dying of the old man which is the result of his encounter with Christ. As we embark upon discipleship we surrender ourselves to Christ in union with his death—we give over our lives to death. Thus it begins; the cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise god-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross does not offer any charm of outward appearance, but to the cross-bearer its true character is revealed, and he finds in it the choicest sweets of spiritual peace.”
Source: At The Master's Feet
“The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.”
“The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!”
“The cross is not a sign of the church's quiet, suffering submission to the powers-that-be, but rather the church's revolutionary participation in the victory of Christ over those powers. The cross is not a symbol for general human suffering and oppression. Rather, the cross is a sign of what happens when one takes God's account of reality more seriously than Caesar's. The cross stands as God's (and our) eternal no to the powers of death, as well as God's eternal yes to humanity, God's remarkable determination not to leave us to our own devices.”
Source: Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
“The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.”
“The cross is not just where Jesus died, it’s where every excuse for a lukewarm life was put to death. To follow Him is to burn for Him.”
Source: Where the Light Breaks Through
“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.”
Source: Heaven Opened: The Riches of God's Covenant Grace
“The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.”
“The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death was only a good example if it was more than an example, if it was something absolutely necessary to rescue us. And it was. Why did Jesus have to die in order to forgive us? There was a debt to be paid — God himself paid it. There was a penalty to be born — God himself bore it. Forgiveness is always a form of costly suffering.”
“The cross is not the suffering tied to being natural existence, but the suffering tied to being Christians. The cross is never simply a matter of suffering, but a matter of suffering and rejection, and even, strictly speaking, rejection for the sake of Jesus Christ, not for the sake of some other arbitrary behavior or confession.”
“The cross is not the suffering tied to natural existence, but the suffering tied to being Christians. The cross is never simply a matter of suffering, but a matter of suffering and rejection for the sake of Jesus Christ, not for the sake of some other arbitrary behavior or confession.”
“The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“The cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world.”
“The cross is steady while the world is turning.”
“The cross is suffering with Christ.”
“The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.”
“The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.”
Source: What Christ thinks of the church: insights from Revelation 2-3
“The cross is the burden of life. It is a place of betrayal, torture, and death. It is therefore a fundamental symbol of mortal vulnerability. In the Christian drama, it is also the place where vulnerability is transcended, as a consequence of its acceptance. [...] By accepting life’s suffering, therefore, evil may be overcome. The alternative is hell, at least in its psychological form: rage, resentment, and the desire for revenge and destruction.”
Source: Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
“The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history”
Source: Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series
“The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume, you have hitherto read your Bible to very little profit. Your religion is a heaven without a sun, an arch without a keystone, a compass without a needle, a clock without a spring or weights, a lamp without oil. It will not comfort you; it will not deliver your soul from hell.”
“The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.”
“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.”
“The cross is the greatest example of humility and devotion in the universe. Jesus put your needs ahead of His own. He considered you more valuable than Himself.”
Source: True Spirituality: Becoming a Romans 12 Christian
“The cross is the ladder to heaven.”
“The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.”
“The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.”