The cross is many things, but it is not a quid pro quo to mollify an angry God. Above all things, the cross, as the definitive moment in Jesus’s life, is the supreme revelation of the very nature of God. At the cross Jesus does not save us from God; at the cross Jesus reveals God as savior! When we look at the cross we don’t see what God does; we see who God is!
— Brian Zahnd, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, p. 82
[Photo: Glenveagh, Ireland, July 2001]