" The most spectacular display of God’s glory is in a bloody instrument of torture because that is where God’s goodness was most displayed. It is good to sing the “Hallelujah Chorus,” but we must also sing, “On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame”—because there God displayed his glory in Christ Jesus, who thus became our tabernacle, our temple, the meeting place between God and human beings. "

― D.A. Carson , The God Who Is There: Finding Your Place in God's Story