But I can look back over these forty-five years or so and see that God, in fact, is in the process of answering those prayers. Teach me what it means, that cross lifted up high. What is this great symbol of the Christian faith? It’s a symbol of suffering. That is what the Christian faith is about. It deals head-on with this question of suffering, and no other religion in the world does that. Every other religion, in some way, evades the question. Christianity has, at its very heart, this question of suffering.
