Death is strong,
strong enough to despoil us of this body of ours.
Love is strong, strong enough to rob death of its spoils
and restore them to us.

 
Baldwin of Canterbury, 12th century

Christ dealt man’s destroyer, death, a fatal blow.

 
St. Melito of Sardis, 2nd century

Faith in the resurrection of Christ never misleads us,
and hope in our own resurrection never deceives us,
because God the Father both restored Our Lord to life,
and will restore us to life too, by virtue of his power.

 
St. Bede the Venerable, 8th century

All things pass away.
See that you do not lay claim to passing things
lest you become caught up in them
and perish along with them.

 
'The Imitation of Christ'; Thomas a Kempis,15th century

The son of God became man
to free man from eternal death.

 
St. Leo the Great, 5th century

Christ's death brings the dead to life.

 
St. Bonaventure, 13th century

Christ, by dying, destroyed death in himself;
we are freed from death only in his death.
His body did not see corruption.

 
St Augustine, 5th century

Death does not have the last word.
It is the passage to the eternal happiness
in store for those who toil for truth and justice
and who do their utmost to follow Christ.

 
St. John Paul II, 20th century