Holy Cross Quotes

• Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

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  Charles Simeon

  Men   Soul   Doe  

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• The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in their doorways and greet it reverently, the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross.

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  C.P. Cavafy

  Christian   People   Joy  

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “A Great Procession Of Priests And Laymen”

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• We have the power of the Holy Cross, our holy symbol, the divine grace of Christ, only as long as we have the holy marking of the Holy Baptism, meaning we have denied the devil and sided with Christ, and received the Holy Marking, the seal of the Gift of the Holy Spirit.

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  Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

  God   Truth   Long  

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• And of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus. We have discovered what we have to do. Christ has bound our enemies for us and weakened them that they cannot overcome us unless we so choose to let them. So we must fight courageously and mark ourselves with the sign of the most Holy Cross.

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  St. Catherine of Siena

  Jesus   Fighting   Enemy  

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• We adore Thee most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here in all Thy Churches, which are in the whole world, because by Thy holy cross, Thou hast redeemed the world

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  Francis of Assisi

  Jesus   Church   World  

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• Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on the market. I have snapped my shutter, morning, noon and afternoon. I have never come close to matching those first plates. (On photographing The Mountain of the Holy Cross)

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  William Henry Jackson

  Morning   Mountain   Holy Cross  

  Dean Knudsen, William Henry Jackson, United States. National Park Service, Oregon Trail Museum (1997). “An eye for history: the paintings of William Henry Jackson : from the collection at the Oregon Trail Museum”

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• Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.

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  Thomas Malory

  Kings   Men   Winning  

  Sir Thomas Malory (1996). “Le Morte Darthur”, p.793, Wordsworth Editions

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