耶穌基督是最完美的原初作品，而保祿像是天主為了我們而製出的模型；我們在保祿裡被塑形，複製耶穌基督的樣貌。聖保祿的模子向我們顯露耶穌的個性、心態、美德、熱情和虔誠等等所有的一切。(APim, 227) Jesus Christ is the perfect original; Paul was made and became himself form for us, wherefore in him, we are forged in order to reproduce Christ. St. Paul-form […]
有些人一生勞碌奔波，汗流浹背；他們走路，他們奮鬥，卻一事無成，因為他們內在缺乏生命力。他們就像是空心的植物，徒有外表，但不會結出果實。(APD47, 283) Some persons work all their life, they come, go, sweat, walk, toil and end up nothing because they lack the interior life. They are zeros without units, empty […]
你們能否像耶穌同樣說：「我常做天父喜歡的事，真誠地遵行祂的旨意？」你們是否讓天主隨祂心意處置一切，最後讓全部都屬於天主呢？歸屬於天主是真正的虔誠！(APD47, 285) Are you persons who can say like Jesus: I always do what pleases Him, in the interior and sincere disposition to God’s will? To do what pleases him? […]
要請瑪利亞指導你。善導之母的畫像中，耶穌的頭靠在聖母的心上，表達聖母能啟迪耶穌——聖母舉起耶穌的小腳來引導祂。(PrP I, 128) Ask Mary to guide you. Our Lady of Good Counsel is painted with Jesus resting his head on her heart, so that she may enlighten him: and […]
有些人在他們的生活中不是做實質的使徒工作，他們的使徒工作是祈禱、好榜樣、內修生活，以及聖善的渴望。(APD47, 291) There are persons who in their life, ought not to do real apostolate of deeds, but apostolate of prayer, good example, interior life, holy desires (APD47, 291).
使徒工作是愛德的花朵，是對天主實行的首要之愛，是渴望祂的光榮。天上導師在塵世生活時，一直渴望天父的光榮，這是我們第一優先的渴望。(APD47, 292) Apostolate is the flower of charity and the first charity to be practised is towards God, desiring his glory. The Divine Master during his earthly life had always […]
一切聖潔的願望總結為：天主被認識、被愛、被光榮；願所有人靈都得救，並且成聖。(APD47, 294) All holy desires are summed up in these: that the Lord be known, loved, glorified; that all souls be saved and holy (APD47, 294).
耶穌聆聽聖善的願望，當我們的願望以天主的光榮為目標、以我們的成聖為目標、以他人的聖化為目標時，這些願望是聖善的。天主必會賜予恩典。(APD47, 296) Jesus listens to holy desires and desires are always holy, when they aim for the glory of God, for our sanctification, for the sanctification of our neighbour. These […]
如果你真的愛耶穌，你必須尋求及研究祂所喜歡的，十分渴望天父的光榮和宣揚信仰。耶穌非常渴望靈魂得救，最重要的是，祂希望你的靈魂聖善、美麗、完全屬於祂，永遠不會讓祂厭惡。(APD47, 298) If you really love Jesus, you have to look for, to study what pleases him, to ardently desire the glory of the Father and the propagation of the […]
哦，童貞聖母，請在我心中燃起對天堂的強烈渴望。在我內增加望德，在所有人的心中增加望德；將在世的生活視為去天堂的準備。(BM, 394) Ignite in me, O Virgin Mother, a great desire for Paradise. Increase in me the virtue of hope; and increase it in all souls; so that they may […]
傳布福音者的工作是必要的。天上導師希望我們祈求莊稼的主人，派遣好的工人去收割莊稼。耶穌親自尋找宗徒，塑造他們，派遣他們！祂在聖神降臨時聖化他們，讓他們能承擔使命。(UPS I, 21) Evangelical workers are needed for works. It is something the Divine Master wants. He tells us to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send good […]
教會內有許多使徒工作，但如果這些工作不能引領靈魂走向聖體，它們就只是噪音與空話，而不是精神和生命。你們的使徒工作是偉大寬廣的，缺少這個就不能有有效的活動。所有其他的使徒工作都應以你們的傳教工作為終向，若沒有你們的工作，其他的都不可能存在。(APD47, 355) There are many apostolates in the Church. However, if these do not lead persons to the Sacred Host, they are merely noise, words and not spirit and life. […]
