If we had no winter, the spring wouldn’t be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity wouldn’t be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet

The irony of the cross is that it’s a beautiful tragedy.

Darkness covered the entire world at the exact moment that the most beautiful event in the history of the world occurred.

For eternity to happen, the cross had to happen.

For the greatest thing that ever happened in the history of the world…

For the greatest thing to ever happen to humanity…

The worst thing had to happen. The hardest, most unbearable thing imaginable had to happen.

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