" Though the cross and everything leading up to it violate our sensibilities and we are rightly aghast, the reality is that human beings have never liked God very much. At the cross, the nature of God was most fully revealed. As a result, human contempt was also most fully revealed and brought to a laser-like focus and intensity. "

― Edward T. Welch , Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection