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The Passion Narratives Are The First Pieces Of The Gospels That Were Composed As A Unity.

Hence The Importance Of Patience In The New Testament, Which Becomes The Basic Constituent Of Christianity, More Central Even Than Humility: The Power To Wait, To Persevere, To Hold Out, To Endure To The End, Not To Transcend One's Own Limitations, Not To Force Issues By Playing The Hero Or The Titan, But To Practice The Virtue That Lies Beyond Heroism, The Meekness Of The Lamb Which Is Led.

Love Alone Is Credible.

The Greatest Tragedy In The History Of Christianity Was Neither The Crusades Nor The Reformation Nor The Inquisition, But Rather The Split That Opened Up Between Theology And Spirituality At The End Of The Middle Ages.

Without Easter, Good Friday Would Have No Meaning. Without Easter, There Would Be No Hope That Suffering And Abandonment Might Be Tolerable. But With Easter, A Way Out Becomes Visible For Human Sorrows, An Absolute Future: More Than A Hope, A Divine Expectation.