These things have "a deeper significance than our pensive theologies have dared to find in them.

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They belong not to the fringe of Christianity but to its essence." Christ loved the world.
His religion, which has come to stand for repression founded on an almost angry distrust of human nature, is in fact "the most encouraging, the most joyous, the least repressive, and the least forbidding of all the religions of the world." It does not fear the world, it masters it.
It does not seek to escape from life, it develops a truer and more abundant life.