The Cross

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“God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pain. Pain is his megaphone to rouse a dulled world.”
~C. S. Lewis

“[Jesus] summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, ‘Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it’”
~Mark 8:34–35

“Our pilgrimage on earth cannot be exempt from trial. We progress by means of trial. No one knows himself except through trial or receives a crown except after victory, or strives except against an enemy or temptations.”
~St. Augustine

“May I never glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world”
~Galatians 6:14

“Without the cross [souls] can find no road to climb to heaven.”
~St. Rose of Lima

“If we only knew the value of suffering we would fall on our knees and ask it of God.”
~St. André Bessette

“You have less to suffer in following the cross than in serving the world and its pleasures.”
~St. John Vianney

“My God will fully supply whatever you need,
     in accord with his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.”
~Philippians 4:19