Reply #15: Surely this can be restated without reference to any deity

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I wish an instrument of peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.

I would seek to console, rather than be consoled;
to understand, rather than be understood;
to love, rather than to be loved.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that our life is completed.

Easter is not just for Christians - so Happy Easter!