Jesus is risen, there is hope for you, you are no longer in the
power of sin, of evil! Love has triumphed, mercy has been
victorious! The mercy of God always triumphs! Pope Francis
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And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God
knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths,
beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real
death; that to die with him the only life? Frederick Buechner
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And so we ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to
change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into
peace. Pope Francis
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An end is only a beginning in disguise. Craig D. Lounsbrough
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not
to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth
with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer
is about. N.T. Wright N.T. Wright
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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people
and hallelujah is our song. Pope John Paul IIPope John Paul II
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The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new
direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was
the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn't
the end. Jesus didn't escape from death; he conquered it and opened
the way to heaven for all who will dare to believe. The truth of
this moment, if we let it sweep over us, is stunning. It means
Jesus really is who he claimed to be, we are really as lost as he
said we are, Steven James Steven James and he really is the only
way for us to intimately and spiritually connect with God again.
Steven James Steven James
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If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless
and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus'
fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not
by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice.
Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He
destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by
allowing death to conquer Him. A.W. Tozer A.W. Tozer