Humanity sentenced God to death; by His Resurrection, God sentenced humanity to immortality. In return for a beating, He gives an embrace; for abuse, a blessing; for death, immortality. Humans never showed so much hate for God as when we crucified Him; and God never showed more love for humanity than when He arose. Humanity even wanted to reduce God to a mortal, but God, by His Resurrection, made man immortal. The crucified God is risen and has killed death. Death is no more. Immortality has surrounded humanity and all the world.

— St. Justin PopovicPaschal Homily