Joshua Biggs’s Reviews > The Cross He Bore: Meditations on the Sufferings of the Redeemer > Status Update

“As we take the sacramental cup in our hands, may we be profoundly conscious that this is a foretaste of that heavenly banquet. Our thoughts might well be of the cup Christ drank, the cup he refused, and the cup from whịch he will drink with us in glory.” -pg 82

Maybe my favorite quote yet

“Yet as he prayed in the very shadow of the cross, Christ saw his death as the means to true glory, and he saw his own glory closely connected with that of his Father. Indeed they merged into one.” -pg 28

“Gethsemane is not a place for hurried theological tourism: it is where the believer must linger, watch and pray.” -pg 15

“In Gethsemane it was never a question whether the Saviour would obey or disobey. In Eden God asked, 'Adam, where are you?' In a sense the question was repeated in Gethsemane and this Adam did not try to hide; he had no need to; his whole response was clearly, Here am I!'” -pg 11

“How clearly the true humanity of Christ is seen in Geth-semane, more so than in much of our standard dogmatics!
For evangelicals are so concerned to defend the deity of Christ, and rightly so, that often they hardly know how to handle his humanity!” -pg 8

Lent read. Will be dropping quotes periodically.