Suffering Saviour Quotes

“In this sublime and two-fold consciousness, we see him unexpectedly rising up from supper; and for what purpose? To appear in his dignity? To display the splendour of his divine glory? To constrain his disciples to bow the knee in the dust before him? One might imagine so; but no, he has something very different in view. Look, what means that? He lays aside his upper garments, takes a towel and girds himself with it; pours water into a basin, bends down to the feet of the disciples, and begins to wash them in their turn, and then to wipe them with the towel. What a spectacle! It is enough to make one start, and to hold one’s breath with astonishment! Are”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher, Suffering Saviour

“The light shall always rise upon thee after the darkness; and after sorrow, joy shall again visit thy threshold. Nor”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher, Suffering Saviour