Jesus Christ would have been considered just another long-haired hippie freak if he hadn't been crucified. The folks weren't impressed with healing the sick, feeding the multitudes bread and fish or anything else, except maybe the walking on water. But when he got crucified, that gave him his big start.
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.
I am one of the crucified dead.
By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!
Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.
If I had 300 men who feared nothing but God, hated nothing but sin, and were determined to know nothing among men but Jesus Christ and Him crucified, I would set the world on fire.
Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashions. But it is precisely this anonymous power that crucified Jesus, for it was anonymous voices that cried 'away with him! Crucify him!'
The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God.
During this same year of 1896 another desire began to grow in me. I began to feel an ever greater yearning to love Jesus Crucified very much, and at the same time a desire to suffer with him and to help him in his sufferings.
When I was praying there was a Presence - I saw nothing and yet Our Lord Crucified seemed present for a few instants.
So these liberals say historical research can't possibly discover the Jesus of faith, because the Jesus of faith is not rooted in history. He's merely a symbol. But listen: Jesus is not a symbol of anything unless he's rooted in history. The Nicene Creed doesn't say, "We wish these things were true. " It says, "Jesus Christ was crucified under Pontius Pilate, and the third day he rose again from the dead,' and it goes on from there.
By Baptism we are made flesh of the Crucified
I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.
Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.
I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.
Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!
When we say that Jesus Christ was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven, we propound nothing new or different from what you believe regarding those whom you call the sons of Jupiter.
Do you want me crucified for my profanity?
True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological argument, a perfect law, or a rational explanation. The Crucified revealed to the world that the real power that changes people and the world is an inner authority that comes from people who have lost, let go, and are re-found on a new level.