A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.
The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.
Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong! Tell me, O Lord--tell me, O Lord, how long Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!
Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 B. C. found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching madman or something. But since that time they have used it and it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the cross. There was no Christ
No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.
Without this heart attitude it is exceedingly difficult for us to accept the circumcision of the flesh. Every affection, desire, thought, knowledge, intent, worship, and work of the flesh must go to the cross.
There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel.
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
If we want proof of God's love for us, then we must look first at the Cross where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God's love for us.
How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their heads to each other. Clouds cross the world’s silence in a circle dance
Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.
There's certain things that you cannot cross, no matter who you are, what you're doing or where you're coming from.
It's a very specific body. Even great reviews will be like: chubby, portly, overweight. . . . Sometimes I'm like, 'Ugh, how did I make myself the guinea pig for this?' But on the other hand, hating my body has not been my cross to bear in this life. Which I feel very lucky about.
The cross alone is our theology.
Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.
The cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world.
The cross is a precious treasure to be kept secret, lest we be robbed of it.
I like when people give up chocolate for Lent. Ooh, just like being nailed to a cross.