#ross

Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too. ↗

— Rob Bell

#cross #crucifixtion #god #hurt #jesus

In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#best #billion #dollars #europe #gross

I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#across #appealing #article #book #came

Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California. ↗

— Duncan Hunter

#between #border #california #come #decide

I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that. ↗

— Bindi Irwin

#afraid #earth #environment #everything #get

Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#crossroads #leads #mouth #off #passage

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#gong #house #i #just #kid

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys. ↗

— Toby Keith

#album #always #board #country #dumped

Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we must see His purpose in it all. Maybe his children are being persecuted by the world in order that they might withdraw themselves from the world. Maybe His most violent enemies may be doing His work negatively, for it could be the mission of totalitarianism to preside over the liquidation of a modern world that became indifferent to God and His moral laws. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#god-s-will #jesus #morality #the-cross #totalitarianism

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across? ↗

— Franz Kline

#any #come #does #emotions #final