Since, after the Cross and Resurrection of the Lord the nature of the sad things has been changed, we no longer accompany the death of the Saints with mournings and lamentations, but rather celebrate over their graves. For the righteous, death after Christ is a journey to a better, happier and more blessed life.
-Nikolaos P. Vassiliadis, Mystery of Death, Chapter 9: Death Before and After Christ; The Brotherhood of Orthodox Theologians pg. 225

The taking by God of our mode of being shows that it is possible for us to become sons of God. Our status as sons indicates that the divine form of being may be communicated to us. 'In Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily' (Col. 2:9). After the Resurrection He sat 'on the right hand of the Father', as Son of man now.
-Archimandrite Sophrony, His Life is Mine: Part 2, Chapter 1; SVS Press pg. 106, 20th century


Through the glory of the Spirit that shone from his face in such a way that no one could look at it (cf. Exod. 34:30-31), Moses showed how in the resurrection of the righteous their bodies will be glorified with the glory that their souls already possess inwardly during this present life. For, as Saint Paul says, 'with unveiled face' - that is to say, inwardly - 'we reflect as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, and are transfigured into the same image from glory to glory' (II Cor. 3:18).
-St. Makarios the Great, Homilies, IV: The Raising of the Intellect no. 62, Philokalia Vol. 3 edited by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware; Faber and Faber pg. 312, 4th century