Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.
-Irenaeus
By the cross we know the gravity of sin and the greatness of God’s love towards us.
-John Chrysostom
He hath subjected all powers, He hath subjugated kings, not with the pride of soldiery, but by the ignominy of the Cross: not by the fury of the sword, but by hanging on the Wood, by suffering in the body, by working in the Spirit.
-Augustine