Quotes of: Cross Keyword

In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in...

The Inner Life

Don't just cross a river--cross it bearing fire!

Traditional

Don't just cross a river -- cross it bearing fire!

Palestinian

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

We are being called to a new and deeper passion: to those who live under the shadow of the cross and those most in need of compassion. Then we become mothers of God, sisters and brothers of Jesus, the loved disciples born in the blood of the Cross an...

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

The cross is a crisis point for all societies which seek to produce me in and women of quiescence, men and women who are trained to give unquestioning, uncritical obedience to worldly powers and not to Christ.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

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 Crucifie...

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.

The Radical Cross: Living the Passion of Christ

Throughout history the cross stands as a symbol of protest and revolt; protest against all claims, whether by religious or political power, to absolute unquestioning control over human minds and bodies; revolt against all systems and ideologies, all ...

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is grist for transformation and glory.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to us if we do not change now, immediately, turning from our present course.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups that arrest the voice of truth or destroy others, then we are Judas.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture. It can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to mistrust, and this mistrusts in turn brings forth war.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

Each confrontation between Jesus and another person or group reveals what we do to each other, personally and on a public level. Each is an indictment against Christians, followers of the man crucified, the suffering servant, the Lamb of God.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

Jim Caviezel

When the range and depth of the suffering of others and what we do to one another are no longer bothers us, nor moves us to remedy the situation and stop the pain, then we have lost a part of our own humanity, our own soul.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

Jesus enters the garden, in preparation, intending to face his fears by facing his God, his Father, His greatest fear is to offend his Father, to disobey his own calling, its integrity, and the word of God on his life.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

Sometimes living with memory, with the thought of what friends, those who shared your soul and dreams, will do to you is worse than taking a bullet or having someone stab your flesh. There is a way of bleeding from one's soul.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture