Excerpt from a Paschal Sermon
Man sentenced God to death; by His Resurrection, He sentenced man to immortality. In return for a beating, he gave an embrace; for abuse, a blessing; for death, immortality. Man never showed so much hate for God as when he crucified Him; and God never showed more love for man than when He arose. Man even wanted to reduce God to a mortal, but God by His Resurrection made man immortal. The crucified God is Risen and has trampled death. Death is no more. Immortality has surrounded man and all the world.