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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.