The Sign and the Sacrifice Quotes

“the love of God is the kind of love that identifies with the powerless; the kind of love that appeals to nothing but its own integrity, that doesn’t seek to force or batter its way through. It lives, it survives, it ‘wins’ simply by being itself. On the cross, God’s love just is what it is and it’s valid and world-changing and earth-shattering, even though at that moment what it means in the world’s terms is failure, terror and death.”
― Rowan Williams, The Sign and the Sacrifice: The Meaning of the Cross and Resurrection

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This is what the love of God is like: it is free and therefore it is both all-powerful and completely vulnerable. All-powerful because it is always free to overcome, but vulnerable because it has no way of guaranteeing worldly success. The love of God belongs to a different order, not the order of power, manipulation and getting on top, which is the kind of power that pre-occupies us.”
― Rowan Williams, The Sign and the Sacrifice: The Meaning of the Cross and Resurrection

“This life of utter givenness to God and the other, the neighbour, is already a life that death cannot contain.”
― Rowan Williams, The Sign and the Sacrifice: The Meaning of the Cross and Resurrection

“The death of Jesus breaks the chain between evil actions and evil consequences”
― Rowan Williams, The Sign and the Sacrifice: The Meaning of the Cross and Resurrection