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

"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."

"the eternal High Priest was condemned 'by the high priest for a year.'"

Literally about Caiaphas, truly about us.

"The religious judges, Annas and Caiphas, found Him guilty of being
too Divine; the political judges, Pilate and Herod, found Him guilty of being too human."

"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"