God is still not defeated.

The resurrection demonstrates powerfully that when men have done their worst, God is still not defeated. Our Lord’s death and resurrection mean that now he fills all things, all human space (see Eph 4: 10); he comes to meet us in the actual sinfulness of our human condition. This is surely a very consoling thought. The resurrection encourages us not to be afraid of what anyone can do to us: “With the Lord on my side, I do not fear: what can man do to me?” (Ps 118: 6). Even more reassuring is the thought that we need not be too afraid even of what we ourselves can do, to ourselves or to others. Even when we have done our worst, God is not defeated. Often we may be excruciatingly aware of how we have let other people down, how we have actively damaged then, hurt them, made it harder for them to love. Yet God is not defeated. It is not within our power finally to destroy anyone in that utter destruction which is damnation. And even the damage that we do to ourselves by sin need not have the last word. It is always open to us to turn to God in this life and see our sins swallowed up in the ocean of his love. This is, of course, not to say that our sins do not matter; but it is to free us from that crippling kind of anxiety which, more than anything else, prevents us from growing in true charity.

Father Simon Tugwell, O.P.