Does God Suffer? An Exploration

“What in God’s own life is a death to self, which is one with the super-abundance of life, becomes a passage through death to Resurrection when God enters into contact with the sinful reality of earthly existence.”

“The Cross’s tragedy of love is the echo, in our history, of the drama of divine love lived out in eternity, in which, by giving us his Son, the Father gives us everything.”

"But before Jesus we become the questioned: Are we ready to be responsible for our freedom and its price, and to consent to what God does—beyond the alternative between immature dependence and indignant revolt?”

“In Isaiah 53, the bond between act and worldly fate begins to dissolve. The speakers come to recognize and confess that what the servant undergoes—grief and sorrow—is not bound up with his deeds but rather with their own.”