So high did He rank kindness, and so heavily did he condemn selfishness, that one of His disciples said, to sin from kindness brought a man nearer to God than to do good through selfishness.

The hostility and reverses He met with He turned into a source of happiness.

Happiness! Did not that word come into the world with Jesus?
"He is always talking of being happy," someone once said to John.
"What do you understand by being happy ?" John replied; "When you feel quite contented inwardly, so that no worldly desire or bitterness disturbs your peace, when all within you is love and trust, as though you were at rest in the eternity of God and nothing can trouble you any more, that is, as I take it, what He means by being happy.

But it cannot be put into words, only he who feels it understands." And Jesus possessed, too, the high sense of communion with God, which he transmitted to all who followed Him.

But I should like to add that where Jesus was most divine, there He was most human.