Tom Waits Quotes

Get off the cross, we need the wood.

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!

Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

I am one of the crucified dead.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

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

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

Brown’s execution will make the gallows as glorious as the cross.

We prefer death, martyrdom, and the graveyards of martyrs than to enjoy the guarantees and protection of America

I wish to be a martyr ... God willing, I will have this through you.

Saviours get crucified.

Jesus Christ was the most perfect being to ever walk this planet and he was persecuted and nailed to the cross … so please don’t be surprised when we get a little static.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.

Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross