The Mystery of the Suffering God AN essential condition of the incarnate, or, what is the same thing, the human God, namely, Christ, is the Passion.
Love attests itself by suffering.
All thoughts and feelings which are immediately associated with Christ concentrate themselves in the idea of the Passion. The heart knows no other God, no more excellent being, than itself, than a God whose name may indeed be another, but whose nature, whose substance is the nature of the heart. Example is the law of religion. What Christ did is law. We ought studiously to consider the example of Christ.