Some say: "What wrong has sin done to God, after all? In reality, it neither attacks nor destroys the essence of God. It takes nothing from His happiness. What can pygmies do against a giant?" This is the reasoning of the world. The pious, also, use it more or less in order to excuse themselves for their sins. Here is the answer: God, in order to manifest clearly what sin is in His eyes, has given His own Son to pay the debt rigorously, and to expiate it in a manner equal to the offence. Sin deserves all that Jesus suffered. God did but satisfy the demands of His justice by condemning Him to that terrible Passion and to that death on Calvary. Jesus came and, having taken upon Himself our sins, became our security, and endured all that we should have to undergo. If, then, you would comprehend the magnitude of the evil, study the greatness of the reparation. Sin means Jesus Crucified.
--St. Peter Julian Eymard
As the Son of God endured such anguish, being sorrowful even unto death, ought we to pass our lives without tasting one drop of the vinegar and gall with Him? How ashamed should we feel at seeking to share His joys, but leaving Him alone in His agony!
Oh, how desirous is Jesus Christ that we should continually remember his Passion! and how it saddens him to see that we are so unmindful of it! Should a person endure for one of his friends affronts, blows, and imprisonment, how afflicting would it be for him to know that that friend afterwards never gave it a thought, and cared not even to hear it spoken of! On the contrary, how gratified would he be to know that his friend constantly spoke of it with the warmest gratitude, and often thanked him for it. So it is pleasing to Jesus Christ when we preserve in our minds a grateful and loving recollection of the sorrows and death which he underwent for us. 
