It is the suffering of Christ that instructs, that gives us insight into our own lives, that lends us strength for our own journeys. Few of us will be crucified, of course, but all of us will, somehow, walk the way of Jesus before our own long days and lonely nights come to an end. The memory of Jesus gives us a choice: We can walk through the Golgothas of our own lives as he did, or we can stumble our way through, bitter and alienated from the very moments that, like his, can bring us to our glory.
— Joan Chittister, In Search of Belief