Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise."

Brooks urges a shift from treating Easter as a report about Jesus alone to receiving it as a personal, transformative promise. The resurrection, in his framing, is not merely a doctrine to affirm (“Christ is risen”) but a revelation meant to reconfigure self-understanding (“I shall rise”). By telling “every man and woman” to count themselves immortal, he emphasizes the democratizing reach of Christian hope: the destiny disclosed in Christ is offered to all. The quote also reflects Brooks’s pastoral aim—moving hearers from detached assent to lived confidence, courage, and moral seriousness grounded in the belief that death does not have the final word.