Michael Collins:
“Not since Adam has man known such solitude.” —NASA referencing Michael Collins on Apollo 11
“This venture has been structured for three men, and I consider my third to be as necessary as either of the other two. I don’t mean to deny a feeling of solitude. It is there, reinforced by the fact that radio contact with the Earth abruptly cuts off at the instant I disappear behind the moon. I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life.” —Michael Collins
“I am it. If a count were taken? The score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the moon…And one plus God knows what on this side.” —Michael Collins
“When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?’ which means, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’” —Mark 15:33-34
“For He has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted one; He has not hidden His face from Him but has listened to His cry for help.” —Psalm 22:24
“The Lord is my shepherd…” —Psalm 23.1a
“Abba, Father, everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what You will.” —Jesus, Mark 14:36
“In my soul I feel just that terrible pain of loss—of God not wanting me—of God not being God—of God not really existing.” —Mother Teresa
Jesus was
“He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces He was despised, and we held Him in low esteem. Surely He took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered Him punished by God, stricken by Him, and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on Him, and by His wounds we are healed.” —Isaiah 53:3-5