Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

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

Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.

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

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

I am one of the crucified dead.

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

Christ is dead and his teachings moribund.

The role that blood plays in Christian iconography is huge - the washing of the blood, the shedding of blood, the blood of the cross, the crucifixion, the violence of that imagery. These are horrific, and yet they are at the center of the Christian faith. There is a place where beauty and terror merge, and it's at the cross.

We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.

Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacrifice of the Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice on Calvary.

Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.

In the sacrifice which Jesus Christ makes of Himself on the Cross for His bride, the Church... there is entirely revealed that plan which God has imprinted on the humanity of man and woman since their creation.

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.

Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.

Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.

Without the cross, there's only condemnation. If Jesus wasn't executed, there's no celebration.