"To the eyes of reason, the cross is the center of sorrow and the lowest depth of shame as Jesus dies an evildoer's death. How different, however, is the view that presents itself to the eyes of faith. Faith knows no shame in the cross. It seems no ground for scorn; but it hurls indignant scorn at sin, the enemy that pierced the Lord. Faith regards the cross not as the emblem of shame but as the token of glory. It tells us that the cross was Jesus Christ's field of triumph. There he fought and there he conquered."
- Charles H. Spurgeon
on Colossians