Pope Francis Quotes

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

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

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that is, our transgressions. It happened at the cross, and it occurs in the lives of followers of Christ every day.

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

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

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

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.

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

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

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

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

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.

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

Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.

God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.

The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.

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

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

God put a cross between you and hell. If you want to go to hell, you will have to crawl over the cross of Jesus.

The cross alone is our theology.

Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.

At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.