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Cross Bearing: Quotations from Burning Words

Taking up one's cross, my dear, means simply that you are to go the road which you see to be the straight one; carrying whatever you find is given you to carry, as well and stoutly as you can; without making faces, or calling people to come and look at you. Above all, you are neither to load, nor unload yourself, nor cut your cross to your own liking. A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of selflove to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spite of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.— FENELON

And now my cross is all supported, - Part on my Lord, and part on me; But as He is so much the stronger, He seems to bear it - I go free.— ANNA WARNER

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.— GEORGE C. LORIMER

Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.— C. H. SPURGEON

To do Thy holy will; To bear Thy cross; To trust Thy mercy still, In pain or loss; Poor gifts are these to bring, Dear Lord, to Thee, Who hast done every thing For me!— GEORGE COOPER

If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?— D. L. MOODY

We must bear our crosses; self is the greatest of them all. If we die in part every day of our lives, we shall have but little to do on the last. O how utterly will these little daily deaths destroy the power of the final dying!— FENELON

All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.— JOHN RUSKIN

Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that, find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away - a faith for living, a faith for dying.— H. W. BEECHER

Dear Lord, forgive my sinful, foolish fears And give me daily, strengthening grace, I pray, And one thing more I ask with humble tears, Take not my cross away!— SUSAN O. CURTIS,

There is an immeasurable distance between submission to the cross and acceptance of it.— CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH TONNA

Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.— THOMAS BROOKS

* The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as an honor and privilege.— RICHARD ALLEINE

Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.— RUTHERFORD

How soon would faith freeze without a cross!— RUTHERFORD