“Other men's crosses are not my crosses.”

“...the cross of popular evangelicalism is not the cross of the New Testament. It is, rather, a new bright ornament upon the bosom of a self-assured and carnal Christianity whose hands are indeed the hands of Abel, but whose voice is the voice of Cain. The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it. The old cross brought tears and blood; the new cross brings laughter. The flesh, smiling and confident, preaches and sings about the cross; before the cross it bows and toward the cross it points with carefully staged histrionics--but upon that cross it will not die, and the reproach of that cross it stubbornly refuses to bear.”

“Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.”

“There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.”

“The men signed of the cross of Christ go gaily in the dark.”

“After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.”