“What's the purpose of Christian life? It's to find ourselves, sinners who have wandered far away from God, to find ourselves once again brought back to the right praise of the Father. How do we do that? By making Jesus our Lord.”

“The cross represents EVERYTHING that evil could do to Jesus, who is the Christ—humiliation, injustice, suffering, abandonment, and death. In the cross, Jesus took it upon Himself.”

“Let us go out this week and tell new stories, stories that embrace the past, but do not hold us there; stories that promise new life and invite us to create future full of hope and life-giving possibilities”

“In the single event of the crucifixion we can see at the same time both the depths of human sin and degradation, and the heights of God’s forgiveness, love and power”

“And as for us, no matter how dark our shadows, our sins — there is nothing that cannot be lit by the glorious cross”

“In dark times, we are not cut off from grace, for grace comes through Jesus’ deliberate self-abasement”

“So stare at the cross today everybody as the Church exults it, stare at it. Let it shed the light on the dark places in you and let it be at the same time this enduring sign of the divine mercy.”

“The solution to human self-elevation is divine self-abnegation. To get this little rhythm is to get much of Christianity.”

“The Cross can be a triumph only because God raised him from the dead and I don't mean that in some vague symbolic way”