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"Our faith begins at the point where atheists suppose that it must be at an end. Our faith begins with the bleakness and power which is the night of the cross, abandonment, temptation and doubt about everything that exists! Our faith most be born where it is abandoned by all tangible reality; it must be born of nothingness, it must taste this nothingness and be given it to taste in a way that no philosophy of nihilism on imagine." Hans Joachim Iwand, unpublished manuscript, quoted in Jürgen Moltmann,
The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology (1974; Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1993), 36.
It cost God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
—C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Book IV, Chapter 10.
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: 1969-1973.
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