The Last Words of Jesus Quotes

“what sort of culture do we tolerate or even promote in our neighborhoods and country that allows us to bypass another human person sprawled on a sidewalk without even the slightest expectation to see if he or she is in need of help?”
― Daniel P. Horan, The Last Words of Jesus: A Meditation on Love and Suffering

“that ignorance in many cases is not bliss, but is in fact sin; and what we don’t know may still not hurt us, but it might very well hurt others.”
― Daniel P. Horan, The Last Words of Jesus: A Meditation on Love and Suffering

“Can the words from the cross offer us a framework by which we can better appreciate the disparity between the love of popular culture and the Christian love of self-surrender? Can the power of these words rightfully shock us into compassion—which literally means “to suffer with”—for those whose pain and sorrow is unknown to us, ignored by us, or made possible by our actions or omissions? Can we drink from the same cup from which Christ drank?”
― Daniel P. Horan, The Last Words of Jesus: A Meditation on Love and Suffering

“we must not be as concerned about our time as we are about God’s time. In God’s time beginnings and endings are one in the same, because God’s time is not so much a matter of minutes, hours, and days as it is about a way of living in the world. The way we mark the passage of our life is not the same way that God marks our time.”
― Daniel P. Horan, The Last Words of Jesus: A Meditation on Love and Suffering

“God is the Creator who is head over heels in love with humanity and seeks what is best for creation out of that love and concern.”
― Daniel P. Horan, The Last Words of Jesus: A Meditation on Love and Suffering

“How often is the first criminal’s question our own? If you are really there, God, then let me find a job...then save my dying father...then help me!”
― Daniel P. Horan, The Last Words of Jesus: A Meditation on Love and Suffering

“Hauerwas explains, “It is my conviction that explanations, that is, the attempt to make Jesus conform to our understanding of things, cannot help but domesticate and tame the wildness of the God”
― Daniel P. Horan, The Last Words of Jesus: A Meditation on Love and Suffering

“Words have a history and a meaning, an origin and tradition of usage, a way of implying complex ideas and concepts that can often elude us when we only think about the way we use words in our native languages, especially if that language is modern American English.”
― Daniel P. Horan, The Last Words of Jesus: A Meditation on Love and Suffering

“I am convinced, especially after spending some intense time in reflecting on Jesus’s final earthly words to us as he suffered and died, that if there was ever a collection of New Testament passages that should challenge us to live more for others as God has lived for us, it is the Seven Last Words of Christ. His parting words from this life should be the founding words of my life.”
― Daniel P. Horan, The Last Words of Jesus: A Meditation on Love and Suffering