Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree. — Anton Szandor LaVey
The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime. — Richard Rohr
The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God. — N. T. Wright
At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation. — Leonard Cohen
Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross. — Charles Spurgeon
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey. — Anthony of Padua
The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope. — Pope Leo I
Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return. — Richard Rohr
This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near. — John Piper
Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. — Henry Becque
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about. — C. S. Lewis
The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge. — Thomas Aquinas
Short Crux Quotes
You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts. — Howard Thurston
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing. — William Broad
The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe! — Frank Zappa
The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing. — William J. Broad
It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence. — Jeff Hawkins
R Quotes
Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama
F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours. — Zig Ziglar
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness. — Leo Tolstoy
I followed someone who had very large shoes. He had very large shoes. Mr. J. R. D. Tata. He was a legend in the Indian business community. He had been at the helm of the Tata organization for 50 years. You were almost starting to think he was going to be there forever. — Ratan Tata
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed. — Robert Burns
Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise. — Rem Koolhaas
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When I'm dating someone, I have a list called my 'Oh No Nos.' If a woman commits a Oh No No, it can end the relationship. Not loving '90s R&B music is #3 on the Oh No Nos list. Girl don't
even know who Ginuwine is. — Aziz Ansari
I take a lot of personal pride and motivation to be able to make a difference in areas that may fall through the cracks in R&D across the industry. — Vivek Ramaswamy
In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America. — Naomi Wolf
Cute Quotes
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. — Bob Marley
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt
We were together. I forget the rest. — Walt Whitman
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. — Unknown Author
Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. — Tyga
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. — Oscar Wilde
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. — Joseph Addison
If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips. — Mary, Queen of Scots
I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. — Shana Abe
Cruz Quotes
Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day. — Tom Hanks
Most things can be fixed with duct tape and extension cords. — Jase Robertson
I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. — Cobie Smulders
The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism. — David Talbot
I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests. — Aaron Koblin
I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America. — Ted Cruz
Republicans think that [Ted] Cruz would be like Barry Goldwater. He'd lose in a landslide and pull the party down with him. They'd lose Senate and House seats. — Mara Liasson
If you will not stand with Israel, then I will not stand with you — Pamela Geller
I dislike Ted Cruz as much as the next everyone. But that's no reason to be rude to Ted's loving wife and possible hostage. — Samantha Bee
I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave. — Ellen Bass
The crux of the matter, is that people don't understand the true nature of money. It is meant to circulate, not be wrapped up in a stocking — Guglielmo Marconi
The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question? — John Hersey
My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me. — Roy DeCarava
Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one way to do it and that is to feel it. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts. — Howard Thurston
The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter. — Thomas Merton
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid -- in which case all comment is superfluous -- or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. — Miguel de Unamuno
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Armaments do not, generally speaking, cause wars. This notion, the logical crux of all arguments in favor of disarmament, turns the causal relationship upside down. Actually, it is wars, or conflicts threatening war, that cause armaments, not the reverse. — James Burnham
The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that's a bonus. — Frank Zappa
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself. — Barbara Tuchman
A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled than ever. The crux ... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing. — William Broad
God has not had an identity crisis. He knows that he is Great and deserves to be the center of our lives. — Francis Chan
The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected. — Ravi Zacharias
Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and psychologically purify the poisons. So indeed, the generative idea is in the crux of this practice and of my propensity toward poetry, which is a practice of the imagination. — Anne Waldman
When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that is barely discernible. One's fingertips must grasp the key, gently warming it. And then the key must be turned once, not twice. — Isaac Babel
From what I can see it's that, if you have money you have access to justice. If you don't, it's becoming increasingly less and less access for low-income Americans and that's the crux of it. I mean, to have a society that has liberty and justice for all, it's right there in the constitution. — Jim Harbaugh
Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.’ — Arthur Hays Sulzberger
The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution. — Alvin Toffler
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself. — Johann Georg Hamann
The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking. — Charlton Heston
The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor. — Joan D. Chittister
Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something. — David J. Lieberman
Our sexuality is fundamental to who we are, surely the crux of this debate is whether or not we accord equal right and respect and esteem to people regardless of their sexuality. — Sarah Wollaston
Regarding the mantra..."There is no overtraining" Just because you can handle large amounts of volume doesn't mean it's needed. That's the crux of the issue. Just because the body can tolerate something doesn't mean it's a necessity for progress. This is simply poor logic. — Steve Shaw
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude. — Eduardo Galeano
Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period. — Martha Beck
Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful analysis shows that in this seeming trifle lies the crux of the matter; usually it contains either the proposition that is being proved or a postulate equivalent to it. — Johann Heinrich Lambert
People are tempted to think (understandably) that if God were really good He'd never allow any evil in the world at all. But I don't think a perfectly good God would never permit any evil, and neither would others, I wager, if they thought about it. Rather, I think that a good God always prevents suffering and evil unless He has a good reason to allow it. That's the crux. — Greg Koukl
Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That's crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday; for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that. — Bashar al-Assad
At the crux of Half Dome, at the very top of the wall, imagine, like, a smooth wall of rock - a nearly vertical granite slap with tiny ripples for your hands and feet. And so you're really trusting the rubber on your shoes to stick to these ripples. — Alex Honnold
There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter. I don't think a novel's main donation, main gift, is the document. The document is there, but a novel goes beyond documentation. It goes into opening a new vista, opening a new perspective, showing familiar things in an unfamiliar way. — Amos Oz
There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter. — Amos Oz
That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual independence. — George Will
[ 1600 Penn] is an ensemble comedy about a family. It just happens to utilize the fact that my character is now being forced into this world as a jumping off point. But, in no way is it the crux of the series. It's simply an introduction to the world. — Josh Gad
I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously. — Terence McKenna
While there are things with this job that remain constant, in terms of how you shoot, the actual crux of the character is always different and always evolving. — Robert Kazinsky
I couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature. — Mario Vargas Llosa
This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil! — Friedrich Nietzsche
To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity. — Marshall Allman
Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography. — Erica Jong
The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs. — John Cheever
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