You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.
Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?
The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
The cross is suffering with Christ.
You do wrong to complain of your crosses and sufferings. Believe me, you know not what it is to suffer. God preserve you from suffering even one day what has been endured by a certain soul, whose name I must not disclose!
A cross between Leo [DiCaprio]'s character in Catch Me If You Can and. . . I don't know, I really like any of his movies.
But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.
The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.
The moment the word 'why' crosses your lips, you are doing theology.
I've always wanted to drive cross-country.
If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.
What is public for you, Elie [Wiesel], is private for Frank [Moore Cross], and the reverse.
He that hath no cross deserves no crown.
The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented. . . . Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.
We are bid to take, not to make our cross.