What Jesus Saw from the Cross Quotes

“The true bread had to be steeped in blood, broken with the gesture of loving sacrifice, distributed in the communion of a banquet for the whole world, and this upon a hill which foreshadowed Calvary, and like Calvary was destined to endure forever.”
― Antonin Sertillanges, What Jesus Saw from the Cross

“Judas does not love. He does not love and that is why he betrays. He does not love, and that is why, having cast aside treason because it horrifies him, he ends by detesting himself without repenting. Self-hatred is salutary only when associated with the love of God. Alone it is homicidal; it has the power to destroy everything and it has no power at all to repair.”
― Antonin Sertillanges, What Jesus Saw from the Cross

“Israel foresees and foretells; her religious genius has a spirit that is unshackled by the bonds of time, and her Yahweh speaks close to her ear.”
― Antonin Sertillanges, What Jesus Saw from the Cross

“the Cross sets the world’s history into the course of God’s.”
― Antonin Sertillanges, What Jesus Saw from the Cross

“His final glance saluted the Temple, His Father’s house, and the rising sun.”
― Antonin Sertillanges, What Jesus Saw from the Cross

“The general who counts only his casualties, the prisoners and the material that he has lost, the positions that he has not taken, the chances that remain to his enemy, and compares his small achievement with his vaster plan, has no sense of triumph. If he confines himself to such calculations he loses the fruit of his victory; in fact, if he is very ambitious, he will regard his victory as a reverse. For is it not a reverse to have done something which is not enough? The Savior’s ambition is insatiable. For one soul He would give the whole of His blood and the whole of His heart. But precisely for that reason, when a soul is lost, even a single soul, He feels that to save it He would leave and forget all the others. His parable tells us so: “If a man hath a hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and go to seek that which is gone astray?”179”
― Antonin Sertillanges, What Jesus Saw from the Cross

“By this act He affirms that the enemy of love is pride, and that the enemy of all good is the refusal to love.”
― Antonin Sertillanges, What Jesus Saw from the Cross