You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.
The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken.
The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by God’s patience, to challenge the world’s impatient violence by cross and resurrection.
A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.
Remember the economy of the Kingdom is simple. Every time we come to cross a new threshold, it costs us everything we now have. Every new step may cost us all the reputation & security we've accumulated up to that point. It costs us our life.
My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.
If we verily bear the cross we shall be neither controlled nor influenced by soulical affection but shall be fit to love in the power of the Holy Spirit. Even so did the Lord Jesus love His family while on earth.
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.
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give. " "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.
There is an endorphin rush that comes when you puke. It's kind of like a runners wall. Once you cross that wall, once you cross that party wall and you puke, you do get a rush. There are good chemicals there. And also, you've made more room in your gut, in your stomach, in your gullet for more content, whether it be fluids or foods.
I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.
The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.
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!
I will do my duty no matter what the price, I've counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice. Oh, and I don't want to die for you, but if dying is asked of me, I'll bear that cross of honor cause freedom don't come free.
There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us.
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?
The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.
But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.