Maya Angelou Quotes

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

Brown’s execution will make the gallows as glorious as the cross.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

I am one of the crucified dead.

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. 'It is finished' is a cry of victory.

If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings.

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.