Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate … Real love has always ended in bloodshed.

All crosses had their tops cut and became T’s. There was also a thing called God.

I’ll walk through the fireWith my head lifted highAnd my spirit revivedIn Your story

What would our hospitality look like if we believed that Jesus’s death on the cross was the measure of God’s compassion for someone?

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

Righteousness and love, law and grace, life and death, as well as time and eternity all intersect at the cross; displaying a divine wisdom that staggers the imagination and leads the humble heart to bow...

Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker.

And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him...

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest...

My God, my God, why hast thouforsaken me?” [The answer?] For me — for me.

To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. When it comes, it is not an accident, but a necessity. It...

The word “Christianity” is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

I hate these affairs”, he’d told her once, tearing up an engraved invitation to an exclusive charity ball. “They’re the worst kind of discrimination. An invitation doesn’t really mean that you’re invited; it means that...

Jesus didn’t die as a frustrated failed revolutionary. His death was the revolution.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

I’ll look to the crossAs my failure is lostIn the light ofYour glorious grace

It is the absoluteness of meaninglessness that Christianity, as I understand it, inhabits and inflects, the shock and stark violence of the cross that discloses the living Christ. Revelation, like creation, arises not merely out...

The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

more a loser than a victor” on the Path it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we are growing spiritually.

The theology of the cross is not a cerebral thing; it profoundly affects our Christian experience and existence, making demands upon our whole lives and turning theology into something which controls not just our thoughts,...

Life is a linear equation in which you can’t cross multiply! If you think you can do it, you can do it. If you think you can’t do it, you can’t do it. It’s a...

nominal Christianity.” In countries to which Christian civilization has spread, large numbers of people have covered themselves with a decent, but thin, veneer of Christianity. They have allowed themselves to become somewhat involved, enough to...

Jesus’ incarnation and ministry thus present us with the final critique of strategic religion; on the cross, where we see God almost deliberately ‘lose’ – as if duped into being strung up by a scheming,...

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

Teach me, O Lord, to glory in my cross. Teach me the value of my thorns. Show me how I have climbed to You through my path of pain. Show me that it is through...

This is love.

Though Jesus was in torture on the cross, He thought of praying for His persecutors, of caring for His mother, of securing the good thief’s salvation.

The gift of being able to speak with a holy God because of the righteousness we gain through Jesus on the cross is an indescribable miracle!

Let the ruins come to lifeIn the beauty of Your nameRising up from the ashesGod forever You reign

What use would God have for a sinner like me?’ ‘We’re all sinners’ Lilly said. ‘The ground at the foot of the cross is even.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn’t...