“Only a coward would send his children to their deaths in order to save his own life.”
“To those who receive [Jesus], that is not only to believe in His existence but to believe that He brings life through salvation by His death and resurrection, God promises the right to become His own children.”
“Only God would adore his own death.”
“To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved by his own sufferings. To know the Cross is to know that we are saved by the sufferings of Christ; more, it is to know the love of Christ Who underwent suffering and death in order to save us. It is, then, to know Christ.”
“God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.”
“Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?”