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Righteousness and love, law and grace, life and death, as well as time and eternity all intersect at the cross; displaying a divine wisdom that staggers the imagination and leads the humble heart to bow in thankful adoration. To understand the cross of Christ is to understand the heart of God toward a fallen world He wants to save.

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The cross I made needs no man on its chest, for its eyes are where its heart is.
— Adam Kovacevic
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The last Christian died on the cross
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime,
And as each blow was paid with Blood,
You paid me also each great sin with greater graces.
For even as I killed You,
You made Yourself a greater thief than any in Your company,
Stealing my sins into Your dying life,
Robbing me even of my death.
— Thomas Merton
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The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross. But his deformity is our comeliness. In this life, therefore, let us hold fast to the deformed Christ.
— Augustine of Hippo
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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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