Active christian life is a common life of service, in contact with human passions, faults, and weaknesses, in a word, in contact with the flesh. But to act in it, to introduce God in it, and this is what Christ was, there must be power, we must be really in communion with Him-participating thus in that nature that nothing encroaches on, and which shines in its own perfection in the midst of all-to be above all that we meet with. 197