Famous quotes containing the words cross and/or performed:
“Pilate with his question “What is truth?” is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.”
—Allan Massie (b. 1938)