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"What we have to say about suffering is usually a prime example of the faulty speech of the theologian of glory...We depend upon and glory in our works, and we call these self-serving deeds good. Suffering, we insist, is bad. If it comes upon us we immediately begin to wonder if we have failed somehow in our works."

"'Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.' That marks the parameters of our story as far as human possibility is concerned...We live only on the strength of the fact that the Creator breathed his Spirit into the dust and gave us life. We live on 'borrowed time'--time lent us by the Creator."...we note that there is absolutely no way out now except one. God vindicated the crucified Jesus by raising him from the dead."