Pope Benedict XVI Crosses Quotations

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.