Whole Price, Whole Praise

Is Christ your High-priest, and is his priesthood so indispensably necessary to our salvation? Then, freely acknowledge your utter impotency to reconcile yourselves to God by anything you can do or suffer, and let Christ have the whole glory of your recovery ascribed to him. It is highly reasonable that he who laid down the whole price should have the whole praise.

— John Flavel, The Fountain of Life

Surprising Humiliation

Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God. (Bruce Shelley, Church History in Plain Language)