#crucifixion

The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must be conformed; in other words, they must be conformed to his death (Phil 3.10, Rom 6.4) The Christian life is a life of crucifixion (Gal 2.19) In baptism the form of Christ's death is impressed upon his own. They are dead to the flesh and to sin, they are dead to the world, and the world is dead to them (Gal 6.14). Anybody living in the strength of Christ's baptism lives in the strength of Christ's death. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both. ↗

— Charles Williams

#crucifixion #god #jesus #death

I have tried to understand what crucifixion must feel like. I just know that the pain must be beyond what I have ever experienced. I respect, love, and trust the One who endured all this when He didn't have to. I understand Jesus with my heart, and the rest of the world can think of Him as it will. ↗

— Marina Nemat

#jesus-christ #marina-nemat #life

Listening to the Gospel on Palm Sunday, it struck me that many people criticise Pontius Pilate for his role in the affair while letting the multitude go scot free. Pilate did what little he could to dissuade them from the extremely unpleasant course of action on which they were set, but the multitude kept shouting for a crucifixion. Pilate could not have done more without provoking a riot. The crucifixion when it happened was a victory for direct democracy against the effete, liberal paternalism of Pilate. If I am right, and the crucifixion be seen as an early victory for the principle of direct democracy, then it must follow...that good men should struggle to confound and frustrate the multitude whenever possible. ↗

— Auberon Waugh

#direct-democracy #men

Build your cities proud and high. Lay your sewers. Span your rivers. Work feverishly. Sleep dreamlessly. Sing madly, like the bulbul. Underneath, below the deepest foundations, there lives another race of men. They are dark, sombre, passionate. They muscle into the bowels of the earth. They wait with a patience which is terrifying. They are the scavengers. They emerge when everything topples into dust. ↗

— Henry Miller

#sexus #society #men

There's unique and particular moment in the natural law of universe, where all things except them are going to turn against their wickedness. ↗

— Toba Beta

#nature

So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if indeed He was so.... They would care little for any God if he came not with pomp and power. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

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The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled. ↗

— William Golding

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It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#death #into #language #leap #new