Miralicious’s Reviews > Meditations on the Cross > Status Update

“Unlike believers in the myths of redemption, Christians have no ultimate refuge from earthly tasks and problems in the eternal. Christians must partake of earthly life to the very end, just as did Christ…Myths of redemption arise from the human experience of limits, whereas Christ addresses us at the very center of our lives.”

“Suffering produces patience, and then experience, and then hope. Whoever avoids suffering is throwing away God’s greatest gifts along with it.”

“The cross is not the horrible end of a pious, happy life, but stands rather at the beginning of community with Jesus Christ…Any attempt at thwarting the necessary is satanic, even or precisely where such attempts come from the circle of disciples…that it is Peter, the rock of the church, who incurs guilt here…means that from its very inception the church itself has taken offense at the suffering Christ.”