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"Historically, Christianity is overburdened with lust for power and an inclination towards convincing by force. The church must relinquish power, while remaining the ferment throughout all the spheres of life.

Outside of power, the Church may be the light, sometimes barely perceptible and sometimes more evident, depending on the times, the lands and historical possibilities.

We must also reject the idea of influencing societies from the outside.  What we only have left to us are inner influences:  through minds and hearts illuminated by that light and through our various undertakings.  The role of the Christians is making the Church the ferment and not power ... God may expect Christians to be creatively spiritual, their spirituality becoming the breathing of the epoch that would imperceptibly change the society.  All this is very important because we are now tired of Christianity as the ideology of a group, a nation, or a state.  We are tired of the inquisition of the necessity to worry about influence or significance.  We may well be poor and free!" - Olivier Clement

Panni Masha clears weeds from her garden.