Thomas Merton Quotes

The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.

When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.

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

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 want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

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.

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.

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.

Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness.

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.

... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him?

Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.

Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love which underwent its worst confict there. Yes, the Cross is the tree that sweetens the waters. 'Love never faileth.

The cross alone is our theology.

May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

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

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

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.