啊，奉獻生活是愛德的生活！愛德在於：耐心、仁慈、寬恕、信任、憐憫、工作、生產、不過於嚴苛、撫慰痛苦，以及勤奮。(APD56, 154) Oh, religious life, life of charity! Patient charity, benign charity, charity that excuses, charity that believes, charity that sympathizes, charity that works, charity that produces, charity that takes away the harshness of life, charity that soothes sorrows and pains, charity that is productive (APD56, 154)
內修工夫的程度不一，有人非常熱忱，有人很冷淡。因此可以說：某些人真正忠於自己的職責，某些人則不忠於自己的職責。(APD56, 299) Interior work. There are people who live in fervour and there are people who do not live in fervour. And herein lies the whole reason why one can say: people who are truly faithful to their profession... and people who are not (APD56, 299).
天主創造我們，因此我們有了生命，來到這個世界。看啊，我們來到這個由天主創造的世界，天主決定了我們的終向。結局就是：天父本著祂的良善，希望有許多的孩子圍繞在祂四周、在祂的餐桌旁，祂在上面等著我們。(APD56, 313) The Lord created us and therefore we live. We came into the world. Behold, coming into the world, created by God, the Lord has destined us for an end and the end is this: in his goodness, the heavenly Father wants to have around him, up there, at his table, many children and […]
