54 Quotes About The-cross

[The particularity of the cross] fragments our attempt to hold it as an integral whole, administer and control it at our whim. This is what scandal means; it disrupts an expected fulfillment and enclosure of meaning.

... a marginal man condemned to death on the cross is Lord ...

The Lord was exposed with naked body: He was not deemed worthy even of covering; and, in order that He might not be seen, the luminaries turned away, and the day became darkened, because they slew God, who hung naked on a tree.

... the death of Jesus took place in a space where God was thought to be absent. It was a space in which God's revelation would not occur, a place that could not witness to divine glory; it was an anti-epiphanic space, for it was the place of the skull.

He imposes the cross. He also gives the strength

The way of the Christian leader is not the way of upward mobility in which our world has invested so much, but the way of downward mobility ending on the cross.

I wot well you are more more godly in such-like things that I can ever be—yet, Kristin, ‘tis hard for me to see how it should be a right reading of God’s word to go on, as your way is, ever storing up wrath and never forgetting.

Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.

The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary.