Crosses Quotes

“If we could all love each and every person that crosses our path a little bit more, we could attain inner peace with the knowledge that many people on this planet would be hurting a whole lot less.”
― Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths

“All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Ancient documents described the symbol as an ambigram—ambi meaning
“both”—signifying it was legible both ways. And although ambigrams were common in symbology—
swastikas, yin yang, Jewish stars, simple crosses—the idea that a word could be crafted into an
ambigram seemed utterly impossible.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Make it your mission to encourage everyone who crosses your path.”
― Skip Prichard

“For the Langs, Madonna was totally and completely out of the question. But when Gretchen's dad was at work and her mom was taking one of her nine billion classes (Jazzercise, power walking, book club, wine club, sewing circle, women's prayer circle), Gretchen and Abby would dress up like the Material Girl and sing into the mirror. Gretchen's mom had a jewelry box devoted entirely to crosses, so it was basically like she was inviting them to do it.”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

“Too bad the Nazis aren't vampires, Ollie thought. At least with vampires, they could be deterred with holy water, crosses, and cloves of garlic. But with Nazis, we need antiaircraft guns, Hurricanes, and Spitfires. Ollie glanced back at the lofts. And maybe pigeons.”
― Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home

“Belief.” He snorted. “I could kiss a thousand crosses. Fucking belief.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife

“We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pirates all, with what looked like necklaces of garlic around their necks. There was salt strewn on the floor in places, and it made a crunchy sound as we walked over it. Some had died clinging to crude wooden and metal crosses. Religious fanatics, I thought then – after all, isn’t it usually the worst sort of people who turn to religion when they suddenly see their end approaching and they fear some kind of reckoning coming their way?”
― Christina Engela, Space Vacation

“The splintered cross, how deep it can go!”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“Prisoner and invasion are limited there will be a reaction when it crosses the border.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“I expect that in Heaven, the angels will sing Bach, and they'll envy us our understanding of Beethoven. The unfallen angels don't have to go through the first movements of the 9th symphony to get to the Ode to Joy. But we do.”
― Peter Kreeft