The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin... He was offering Himself as the sacrifice required by the justice of God if man was to be redeemed.
- Billy Graham
Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Christian worldview is liturgical as well as cerebral; it culminates with an everlasting crescendo of praise.