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To feel loved is to feel free. As long as indifference, hostility, or hatred hem us in, freedom is difficult. Only in surroundings where you meet esteem and friendliness can you be free without effort. The extraordinary thing about Christ was his total freedom in an atmosphere of misunderstanding on the part of his disciples and enmity on the part of the Jewish authorities. Christ loved those who did not love him, and his cry on the cross: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” – the cry of a desolate faith – sprang, perhaps, from no longer feeling even the love of the Father that had always been with him.

On the cross, we saw a love capable of bearing everything.