“To say that the cross emblazoned with the papal coat of arms, and set up by the indulgence preachers, is equal in worth to the cross of Christ is blasphemy.”
Thesis 79
Ninety-five Theses (1517)
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From the sermon "Glorying in the Cross", published in 1768. Misquoted since 1845 as "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ; cursed be all that learning that is not coincident with the cross of Christ; cursed be all that learning that is not subservient to the cross of Christ." So quoted by S. S. Cox in October 1845, in Permanent Documents of the Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West, Volume 1, p. 30.
“Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 171.
“The cross is suffering with Christ.”
Source: Discipleship (1937), Discipleship and the Cross, p. 86.
Context: The cross is not random suffering, but necessary suffering. The cross is not suffering that stems from natural existence; it is the suffering that comes from being Christian. … A Christianity that no longer took discipleship seriously remade the gospel into only the solace of cheap grace. Moreover, it drew no line between natural and Christian existence. Such a Christianity had to understand the cross as one's daily misfortune, as the predicament and anxiety of our daily life. Here it has been forgotten that the cross also means being rejected, that the cross includes the shame of suffering. Being shunned, despised, and deserted by people, as in the psalmists unending lament, is an essential feature of the suffering of the cross, which cannot be comprehended by a Christianity that is unable to differentiate between a citizen's ordinary existence and a Christian existence. The cross is suffering with Christ.
“A simple maiden in her flower
Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.”
Stanza 2
Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)
“Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.”
A paraphrase of a statement by John Witherspoon, who was president of Princeton when Madison attended the school, in a sermon "Glorying in the Cross"(1768):
:: Accursed be all that learning which sets itself in opposition to the cross of Christ!
::* This has appeared in the paraphrased form since at least 1845; how it came to be attributed to Madison is unknown.
Misattributed
“The Cross on Golgotha
Thou lookest to in vain,
Unless within thine heart
It be set up again”
The Cherubinic Wanderer
“Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.”
"What Think You of the Cross?", p. 276
Startling Questions (1853)
“The thief upon the cross and the beloved John were alike complete in Christ.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 362.
Christus ist das Genie der Liebe, als solches der diametralste Gegenpol zum Judentum, das die Inkarnation des Hasses darstellt. … Christus ist der erste Judengegner von Format. … Der Jude ist die menschgewordene Lüge. In Christus hat er zum erstenmal vor der Geschichte die ewige Wahrheit ans Kreuz geschlagen.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)