Quotes about Cross

The New Testament is from beginning to end a living witness to the apostolic preaching. The cross was meant to be preached.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.

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

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child's hobby-horse and trumpet.

By Thy birth, and by Thy Cross, Rescue him from endless loss; By Thy death and burial, Save him from a final fall; By Thy rising from the tomb, By Thy mounting up above, By the Spirit's gracious love, Save him in the day of doom.

Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

The cross is the price of true love. Lord, give us the strength to accept and carry our crosses!

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

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

In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.