Cross-Shattered Christ Quotes

“We think it is really very simple: Jesus had to die because we needed and need to be forgiven. But, ironically, such a focus shifts attention from Jesus to us. This is a fatal turn, I fear, because as soon as we begin to think this is all about us, about our need for forgiveness, bathos drapes the cross, hiding from us the reality that here we first and foremost see God. Moreover,”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Seven Last Words

“Hear these words, “My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?” and know that the Son of God has taken our place, become for us the abandonment our sin produces, so that we may live confident that the world has been redeemed by this cross. So”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Seven Last Words