The "Steadying Brakes" of God's Laws

A single novel — a single sentence! — unlocked a great truth for me. Man needed the "steadying brakes of God's laws and the sacrifice of One who stands in for all of history's victims and perpetrators. The old "thou shalts" and the heartbreaking sacrifice that I read about in Saint Matthew's Gospel were a bulwark against totalitarianism, perhaps the only durable ones. The God who revealed himself in the moral law, and who condescended to be scourged by his creation — this God was a liberator.

Sohab Amari; From Fire, By Water