Aaron Crofut’s Reviews > Life of Christ > Status Update

I've had a difficult time continuing to read as the world seemed to fall apart; especially as the next chapter to be read was "Love as the Condition of Authority." But this is the truth we need:

"He turned to the one who had denied Him three times and asked a triple affirmation of love. The confession of love must precede the bestowing of authority; authority without love is tyranny"

"His death and also His Kingship were proclaimed in the name of the three cities of the world: Jerusalem, Rome, and Athens; in the language of the Good, the True and the Beautiful; in the tongues of Sion, the Forum and the Acropolis. "

"Mary, Magdalen, John; innocence, penitence, and priesthood; the three types of souls forever to be found beneath the Cross of Christ."

What the dream was we know not, but a modern writer, Le Fort, has guessed at it. Good Friday morning, as Claudia awoke, she seemed to hear voices in the catacombs saying: “He suffered under Pontius Pilate” then later on in Roman temples turned into churches: “He suffered under Pontius Pilate” then gathering like the roar of the sea, the voices multiplied and chanted in churches “He suffered under Pontius Pilate.”

"Before a sin, the devil makes light of it; after the sin, the devil
becomes an accuser inciting despair and worse crimes in the guilty"

"The tragedy of the life of Judas is that he might have been St. Judas."

"Not the impatience of the violent, but the patience of saints was to be His
way of winning souls."

"To most men, the burden of sin is as natural as the clothes they wear, but to Him the touch of that which men take so easily was the veriest agony."

"In the presence of Divinity, no one can be sure of his innocence, and everyone asked, 'Is it I?' Every man is a mystery to himself, for he knows that within his heart there lie, coiled and dormant, serpents that at any moment would sting a neighbor with their poison, or even God. One of them could be sure that he was the traitor, and yet no one could be sure that he was not"