{"quotes":[{"text":"Practice mercy and forgiveness throughout as a lesson that symbolizes the love shown through his crucifixion.","author":"Unarine Ramaru","tags":["brotherhood","christianity","crucifixion","easter","forgiveness","good-friday","jesus-christ","love","mercy","religion"],"id":13753,"author_id":"Unarine+Ramaru"},{"text":"Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.","author":"Charles Williams","tags":["crucifix","crucifixion","god","jesus"],"id":25208,"author_id":"Charles+Williams"},{"text":"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.","author":"W.H. Auden","tags":["auschwitz","christmas","crucifixion","easter","good-friday"],"id":28496,"author_id":"W.H.+Auden"},{"text":"The ‘doctrines’ we get out of the true myth are of course less true: they are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in a language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["crucifixion","doctrine","language","myth","resurrection","revelation"],"id":32189,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"Easter is the final solution to the finality of death.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["christian","christianity","cross","crucifixion","death","easter","final","finality","god","holiday","jesus","resurrection","sacrifice","salvation","tomb"],"id":34117,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Like crucifixions and pornography, it never got old.","author":"Joe Schreiber","tags":["crucifixion","cw","pornography","supernatural","winchester"],"id":43088,"author_id":"Joe+Schreiber"},{"text":"There is no sobornost without crucifixion, because it is through pain that one acquires that deep knowledge that has nothing to do with books and education… that deep knowledge that is given by God and by God alone that builds the foundation of unity. People thus united are transparent, and it is in those depths that one finds, I repeat, the foundation of sobornost… of unity.","author":"Catherine de Hueck Doherty","tags":["catholic","catholicism","christian","christianity","crucifixion","god","knowledge","pain","people","sobornost","sobriety","unity"],"id":46005,"author_id":"Catherine+de+Hueck+Doherty"},{"text":"An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["courage","crucifixion","truth-telling"],"id":49924,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"The cross unerringly exposes this stunningly marvelous and abruptly exquisite declaration that God will not let this single life of mine, with all of its grotesque maladies and pathetic filth pass into oblivion without unflinchingly declaring that my life carries a value worth the expenditure of His. And if I dare look upon the cross, I am utterly perplexed but wholly enraptured by the immensity of such a love as this.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["beginnings","cross","crucifixion","easter","endings","hope","jesus","jesus-christ","love","sacrifice","value","worth"],"id":62279,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'?","author":"Jake Jesser","tags":["christianity","crucifixion","death","mythology","perspective","religion","scepticism","theology"],"id":63143,"author_id":"Jake+Jesser"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":51,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}