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1 " [Knowing God]... call it love, yes, only that can sound too emotional, or call it faith, and that can sound too cerebral. And what is it? Both, and neither... [its] the decision to be faithful, the patient refusal of easy gratifications... of Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane and on the cross, that bloody crown of love and faith. That is how I learn finally of a God who will not be fitted into my catergories and expectations... the living truth too great for me to see, trusting that He will see and judge and yet not turn me away... That is the mercy which will never give us, or even let us be content with less than itself and less than the truth... we have seen the truth enacted in our own world as mercy, grace and hope, as Jesus, the only-begotten, full of grace and truth.. "
― Rowan Williams , Tokens of Trust
2 " For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait. "
― C.S. Lewis , Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
3 " In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. "
― C.S. Lewis , The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
4 " Lord, forgive us for the times we have read about Gethsemane with dry eyes. "
― , The Cross He Bore: Meditations on the Sufferings of the Redeemer
5 " As Adam lost the heritage of union with God in a garden, so now Our Blessed Lord ushered in its restoration in a garden. Eden and Gethsemane were the two gardens around which revolved the fate of humanity. In Eden, Adam sinned; in Gethsemane, Christ took humanity's sin upon Himself. In Eden, Adam hid himself from God; in Gethsemane, Christ interceded with His Father; in Eden, God sought out Adam in his sin of rebellion; in Gethsemane, the New Adam sought out the Father and His submission and resignation. In Eden, a sword was drawn to prevent entrance into the garden and thus immortalizing of evil; in Gethsemane, the sword would be sheathed. "
― Fulton J. Sheen , Life of Christ
6 " In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed. "
