Resurrection is not a deferred consolation—”the opium of the next world.” It is the power which enables this life to be reborn. The hope is directed, not towards a different world but towards the redemption of this one.

In the Spirit, resurrection is not merely expected; it is already experienced. Resurrection happens every day.

In love we experience many deaths and many resurrections. We experience resurrection by being born again to a living hope through love, in which we already, here and now, wake from death to live, and through liberation: “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (II Cor. 3:17).

from The Way of Jesus Christ