T Quotes
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“The cross is the place where heaven meets earth and grace erupts. The cross is the place where Jesus does not simply meet our suffering, but becomes our suffering so as to transform the world.”
“The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.”
“The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.”
“The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.”
Source: Evil and the Justice of God
“The cross is the price of true love. Lord, give us the strength to accept and carry our crosses!”
“The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.”
“The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.”
“The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.”
“The Cross is the way to Paradise, but only when it is borne willingly.”
“The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.”
Source: I Believe: The Promise of the Creed
“The cross is the worst thing that ever happened that, by God’s plan, became the best thing that ever happened.”
Source: Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family
“The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.”
“The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.”
“The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.”
“The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.”
“The Cross of Christ bears the suffering and the sin of mankind, including our own. Jesus accepts all this with open arms, bearing on His shoulders our crosses and saying to us: 'Have courage! You do not carry your cross alone! I carry it with you. I have overcome death and I have come to give you hope, to give you life' (John 3:16).”
Source: Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith
“The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.”
“The cross of Christ is the all-sufficient ground for the salvation of sinners. It claims to be sturdy enough to support the whole weight of our guilt all by itself. Therefore, to boast in the cross properly at all is to boast in the cross alone.”
“The Cross of Christ is the Aroma of Life for the elect and the Aroma of Death for the reprobate”
“The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.”
“The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.”
“The cross of Christ is the response of God to men for belittling His name.”
“The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.”
“The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.”
“The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.”
Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
“The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.”
Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)
“The cross of Christ, embraced with love, never brings sadness with it, but joy, the joy of being saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.”
“The cross of Jesus Christ represents the intersection of God's love and God's holiness.”
“The Cross of Jesus is the revelation of God’s judgment on sin and to avoid that same judgment we have a responsibility to not make a practice of sin.”
“The cross of the Cruxifixion without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity.”
“The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.”
“The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.”
“The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.”
“The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.”
Source: Wisdom for Each Day
“The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.”
Source: AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, conform over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.”
“The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.”
“The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.”
“The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.”
Source: Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic: A Library of America eBook Classic
“The cross, therefore, is always ready; it awaits you everywhere.
"No matter where you may go, you cannot escape it, for wherever you go you take yourself with you and shall always find yourself."
Turn where you will -- above, below, without, or within -- you will find a cross in everything, and everywhere you must have patience if you would have peace within and merit an eternal crown.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge.”
“The cross to me is complete nonviolence because Jesus said, "Love your enemy. Do not kill." I realized that I could never kill anyone or hurt anyone, but I was committed to trying to bring about social and political and economic change.”
“The cross unerringly exposes this stunningly marvelous and abruptly exquisite declaration that God will not let this single life of mine, with all of its grotesque maladies and pathetic filth pass into oblivion without unflinchingly declaring that my life carries a value worth the expenditure of His. And if I dare look upon the cross, I am utterly perplexed but wholly enraptured by the immensity of such a love as this.”
Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
“The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.”
“The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.”
Source: The Silence of God
“The Cross was the place of your spiritual birth; it must ever be the spot for renewing your health, for it is the sanatorium of every sin-sick soul. The blood is the true balm of Gilead; it is the only catholicon [remedy] which heals every spiritual disease.”
“The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.”
“The cross wasn't just an act of lofty compassion, it is also a deliberate model for social justice.”
“The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.”
“The cross which is the object of faith, is also, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the cause of it. Sit down and watch the dying Savior till faith springs up spontaneously in your heart. There is no place like Calvary for creating confidence. The air of that sacred hill brings health to trembling faith. Many a watcher there has said: 'While I view Thee, wounded, grieving, Breathless on the cursed tree, Lord, I feel my heart believing That Thou suffer'dst thus for me.”
Source: All of Grace