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Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation. — Peter Kreeft

The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes. — Maggie Young

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion. — Robert Hughes

Look," I'll say to Jesus, "enough is enough. I suggest we nail some boards together and have ourselves an old-fashioned crucifixion. — David Sedaris

Solitude: so fulfilling that the merest rendezvous is a crucifixion. — Emil Cioran

Peace, and not riches, had been the great legacy which He had left with the eleven the night before His crucifixion. — J.C. Ryle

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect. — Soren Kierkegaard

You think Jesus ever tried to talk God out of some of that stuff? 'Instead of that whole crucifixion, how about we do a big fundraiser!' — Jim Gaffigan

The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled. — William Golding

How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection! — Neal A. Maxwell

Freedom is a state of mind . some people are enslaved while having everything but some are free even while crucifixion — Jagvir

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'? — Jake Jesser

If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock ... — Joss Whedon

Like crucifixions and pornography, it never got old. — Joe Schreiber

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection. — Kenneth Scott Latourette

That dusty hill we can scarcely look upon and then only with pain, The Adversary, also with pain, does and must ever witness The Crucifixion. — Geoffrey Wood

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

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion. — C.S. Lewis

What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures? — Emil Cioran

Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both. — Charles Williams

If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion ... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed. — Joseph Campbell

It's strange that Christians so rarely talk about failure when we claim to follow a guy whose three-year ministry was cut short by his crucifixion. — Rachel Held Evans

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. — Lou Holtz

Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse. — Philip Yancey

Public crucifixion is no fun. — Peter O'Toole

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. — Lenny Bruce

God emptied out that first tomb so that He could turn around and empty out me. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Pretty much all films I've seen that depict the life of Christ end with the Crucifixion, almost like the filmmakers don't know what to do after. — Joseph Fiennes

Her sponge cakes had the aroma of crucifixion.Within them was the sap of slyness and the fragrant frenzy of the Vatican. — Isaac Babel

At night the jackals came and ate their feet, and the next morning crows flew down and ate their eyes. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Unto the Cross came death, and unto death came the Cross. — Anthony Liccione

When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy. — Simone Weil

The gratification of the reader must come at the cost of the crucifixion of the author. — Anonymous

A god of the 'possible' is no God. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit. — D.H. Lawrence

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No! — Alan Bennett

The crosses with which our path through life is strewn associate us with Jesus in the mystery of His crucifixion. — John Eudes

Perhaps no more beautiful passages have ever been written about the Savior's atonement and crucifixion than those written by Isaiah. — Jeffrey R. Holland

Here, astoundingly, crucifixion on a cross is a model around which Paul's audiences are to construct the whole of their life. — Bruce W. Longenecker

The Crucifixion, Atonement, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ mark the beginning of a Christian Life, not the end of it. — Jeffrey R. Holland

The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven. — N. T. Wright

A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me. — Andrew Murray

Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. — Deepak Chopra

The Christ of Bethlehem is the Christ of Galilee, is the Christ of the Crucifixion, is the Christ of the Resurrection, is the Christ of the Eucharist — John Joseph O'Connor

Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Easter is the final solution to the finality of death. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

What was in the cup Jesus drank at His crucifixion? It was the wrath of God. — Jerry Bridges

There's unique and particular moment in the natural law of universe,
where all things except them are going to turn against their wickedness. — Toba Beta

The crucifixion portrayed on our show was undertaken by the son of God, a trained professional. Do not try to crucify yourself at home. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

My faith teaches me that the path to join souls in love must of necessity involve a crucifixion, and I think there's a metaphor in there for marriage. — Donald Miller

Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Maybe I don't have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

We slay the Love Idol at the site of the Crucifixion, nailing it to the cross. — Jennifer Dukes Lee

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion. — Fulton J. Sheen

We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

'A.D.' will focus on life after the crucifixion and the dangers that the disciples faced in the aftermath of Jesus' resurrection. — Roma Downey

I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story. — Mort Sahl

Jesus didn't die to save me from God. Jesus died to save me from myself. — Ricky Maye

It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples. — Martin Hengel

But remember this: without a crucifixion there can be no resurrection! — Mark Batterson

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