“The resurrection completes the inauguration of God's kingdom. . . . It is the decisive event demonstrating that God's kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven."

"The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.” 

― N.T. Wright

“On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.” - G. K. Chesterton

C.S. Lewis - Hwin

Then Hwin, though shaking all over, gave a strange little neigh and trotted across
to the Lion. “Please,” she said, “you're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like.
I'd sooner be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.”
~ C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

N.T. Wright - Lord's Supper Quote

And every time we celebrate the Eucharist, we celebrate the victory of Jesus Christ in a way which, by the power of its symbolic action, resonates out, into the city, into the country, into the world, into our homes, into our marriages, into our bank accounts — resonates out with the powerful message that God is God, that Jesus is his visible image, and that this God has defeated the powers of evil that still enslave and crush human beings today. 'Eucharist' means 'thanksgiving'; thanksgiving for the work of Christ is the most powerful thing we can ever do. The task of the Church is to get on with implementing the victory of the cross; and if we grasped that vision and lived by it, we would be at last to address some of the problems in the Church and the world that loom so large and seem so intractable. The battle has been won; let's get on and implement it. Let us follow our victorious Lord wherever he goes. (N.T. Wright, Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship. pgs. 21-22.)

“What is the purpose of liturgy? It turns out that novelty (free-form 'lack of liturgy') may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question, 'What on earth is he up to now?' will intrude. It lays waste to one's devotion.

There is really some excuse for the man who said, 'I wish they'd remember that the  charge to Peter was: 'Feed my sheep;' not 'Try experiments on my rats,' or even, 'Teach my performing dogs new tricks.'”

~ C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm

“Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.” ~ Pope Paul VI

“The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.” ~ Joseph Ratzinger