Top 259 Crucified Quotes & Sayings

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

The church is the cross that Christ was crucified on.

Oh that God would give me the thing which I long for! That before I go hence and am no more seen, I may see a people wholly devoted to God, crucified to the world, and the world crucified to them. A people truly given up to God in body, soul and substance! How cheerfully would I then say, 'Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.'

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?

There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.

Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit

We may not preach a crucified Savior without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

Meditation on Jesus Christ crucified is a precious balm which sweetens all pains.

However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the sick and dying can see themselves, because in them the crucified God recognizes himself.

You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.

When I was praying there was a Presence - I saw nothing and yet Our Lord Crucified seemed present for a few instants.

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

Saviours get crucified.

Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to "a green hill far away, without a city wall," where the founder of Christianity was crucified by those forces of selfishness, greed, and lust for gain that are still at work in the world. It seems to me that unless we do something in Canada about the question of the export of war materials there will be another crucifixion - the crucifixion of a generation of young men, crucified upon a cross of nickel.

The 'flesh' is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

Those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires, but you can't do that at the foot of the cross. Those who pierced Him also stood at the foot of the cross. Standing there does not bring any pain to the flesh; but when you are crucified together with Jesus, you will come to know the fellowship of His sufferings.

Jesus Christ would have been considered just another long-haired hippie freak if he hadn't been crucified. The folks weren't impressed with healing the sick, feeding the multitudes bread and fish or anything else, except maybe the walking on water. But when he got crucified, that gave him his big start.

The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers of cant and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory light of the world.

Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

I am one of the crucified dead.

In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. The world will allow itself to be subdued only by success. It is not ideas or opinions which decide, but deeds. Success alone justifies wrongs done With a frankness and off-handedness which no other earthly power could permit itself, history appeals in its own cause to the dictum that the end justifies the means The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.

Do you want me crucified for my profanity?

The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

By Baptism we are made flesh of the Crucified

Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under.

If you are going to worship a guy who was crucified, don't expect life to be pop and Skittles.

Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

What do I predict with the HBO 'Game Change' movie? I expect my family and Sarah Palin to be nothing short of crucified.

Who do you think was smarter, Jesus or Buddha? I mean, just in terms of not letting themselves get crucified.

I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.

Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.

Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 B.C. found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching madman or something. But since that time they have used it and it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the cross. There was no Christ. But the man on the cross is shown as Everyman. So of course each person seeing a crucified man, has an immediate feeling of sympathy for this man. Therefore you get many PCs who says they are Christ. Now, there's two reasons for that, one is the Roman Empire was prone to crucify people, so a person can have been crucified, but in R6 he is shown as crucified.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

The true Christian does not need to be reminded that he has a crucified Master. He often thinks of Him.

Even as we slog through the trials, persecutions, irritations, temptations, distractions, apathy, and just plain weariness of this world, the gospel points us to heaven where our King Jesus — the Lamb of God who was crucified in our place and raised gloriously from the dead — now sits interceding for us. Not only so, but it calls us forward to that final day when heaven will be filled with the roaring noise of millions upon millions of forgiven voices hailing him as crucified Savior and risen King.

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.

Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.

Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified

Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified for living out a love that disrupts the social order, that calls forth a new world. People are not crucified for helping poor people. People are crucified for joining them.

In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.