I came across this quote from St. Theresa Benedicta when reading about her, and found it to be one of the most beautiful things I have ever read!
"The Christian mysteries are an indivisible whole… Thus the way from Bethlehem leads inevitably to Golgotha, from the crib to the Cross. The star of Bethlehem shines in the night of sin. The shadow of the Cross falls on the light that shines from the crib. This light is extinguished in the darkness of Good Friday, but it rises all the more brilliantly in the sun of grace on the morning of the resurrection. The way of the incarnate Son of God leads through the Cross and Passion to the glory of the Resurrection. In His company, the way of every one of us, indeed of all humanity, leads through suffering and earth to this same glorious goal."
