QUOTES FOR MATTHEW
26-27; MARK 14-15;
LUKE 22-23; JOHN 17-19
Nancy Baird
Viktor
Frankl, in "Man's Search for Meaning," writes of being in a
Concentration Camp - Auschwitz - and of "the men who walked through
the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread...
They may
have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be
taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to
choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances...in the final analysis
it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of
an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone...Dostoyevski
said once, "There is only one thing I dread: not to be worthy of my
sufferings.""
104-105.
"So the
false self of the fallen apostle slipped away. It was enough...he saw no
more enemies, he knew no more danger, he feared no more death...flinging the
fold of his mantle over his head, he, too, like Judas rushed forth into the
night...but not as Judas, into...outer darkness...but [instead] to "meet
the morning dawn."..If the angel of Innocence had left him, the angel of
Repentance took him gently by the hand...this broken-hearted
penitent...and...his old shame, his old weakness, his old self, was doomed to
that death of godly sorrow which was to issue in a new and nobler birth."
Frederic
Farrar, The Life of Christ, 604.
"Contrary
to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed
especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I
can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my
seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and
enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through
happiness..."
Malcom
Muggeridge
Matt26-27,Mark14-15,Luke22-23,John17-19- Nancy Baird - April 23, 2013(Audio)