#cross

If I was perfect then this would be easy... ↗

— Avenged Sevenfold

#crossroads #diamonds-in-the-rough #music #music

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say "seeing"? there are no tenses in God - the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breath's sake, hitched up. If I may dare the biological image, God is a "host" who deliberately creates His own parasites; causes us to be that we may exploit and "take advantage of" Him. Herein is love. This is the diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#christ #cross #god #love #love

To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, "I LOVE YOU." Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. ↗

— Philip Yancey

#justice #pain #suffering #love

Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

#board #difference #educate #even #gentlemen

I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is. ↗

— David Axelrod

#aisle #awhile #best #election #ferment

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it. ↗

— David Bailey

#fingers #i #i do #just #keep

Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#actually #america #being #cast #glued

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#animal #beginning #behavior #cross #human

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#fiction #his #nailed #neurotic

The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility. ↗

— Joe Andrew

#country #democratic #democratic party #fiscal #fiscal responsibility