我們勤讀聖保祿的書信，就能清楚明白他的想法：他的論證和他所寫的每一句話，都是符合基督的；亦即把福音的神聖教導應用在生活和所處的環境中。 If we read the Letters of St. Paul we understand well what was his thinking: his reasoning, and every word he wrote, was conformed to Christ; it was an application of the divine doctrine of the Gospel to life, to circumstances (AP 1958/1, p.175).
聖保祿擅長組織及福傳。他傳教旅程結束後，在所經過的地方建立了監督和長老（主教和司鐸）——神聖牧者們的組織架構的雛形。 Saint Paul was a powerful organizer of good and the apostolate. He established a magnificent network of bishops and priests in the places of his missions at the end of his journeys: a network of holy pastors (APim, p. 29).
必須捨棄一切——想法、喜好、傾向、處事的方式等等，得以獲取新的心、新的思想和新的處事方式……。在此，成功的典範有瑪利亞、耶穌和聖保祿。 You have to give up everything: your way of thinking, the preferences you had, the trends and then the ways of dealing; you have to have a new heart, a new mind and a new way of working.... And the examples are there: Mary, Jesus, Saint Paul (AP 1960, p. 98).
聖保祿對人靈的愛表現在「基督的愛催迫著我們」這句話，敦促他為一切人成為一切。他感受到所有人的需要和喜樂。 St. Paul’s great love for souls is expressed in that «Caritas Christi urget nos» which urges him to do everything to everyone. He experienced the needs of all, the joys of all (RSP, p. 274).
聖保祿構思書信的內容，口述念給寫字的人，然後簽署書信；這些信件被傳到各個教會誦讀——好基督徒複製抄寫這些信；好基督徒傳閱這些信件。這些人實行出版使徒工作的真正職責。 Saint Paul conceived his letters and dictated them, reserving the right to sign them; good Christians multiplied them, copied them; good Christians circulated them. He exercised the true apostolate of publishing (CISP, p. 809).
聖保祿重用他人，在每座城市任命了值得尊敬的牧者：同樣，婦女們也為福傳工作而服務。在保祿書信中提到的人，是各個教會和大家應十分感謝的。 Taking help from others, Saint Paul ordained worthy priests in every city: Even the women served to spread the Gospel and some of them are remembered in his letters as people to whom the Church and souls were much indebted (APim, p.88).
傳遞給我們的「聖保祿模式」不是外在的，而是要把他的特質發揮得淋漓盡致：他的心態、美德、熱忱、虔敬等等。保祿家庭有很多成員，應是活生生的聖保祿住在團體中。 The mould St. Paul is not for a physical replication of his bodily features, but for communicating his personality to us to the maximum: his mentality, virtue, zeal, piety... everything. The Pauline Family, composed of many members, is Saint Paul living in a social body (ACV, p. 63).
拜訪團體是最能顯露聖保祿對子女的惦念和情懷的行動之一，因此，他重覆踏上傳教旅程，這耗了他許多心力，卻帶來了莫大的喜悦和超凡靈性的成果。 One of the works that best reveals the soul of Saint Paul, who was fond of his children and filled with zeal, is that of the visits... Thus he repeated his apostolic journeys which cost him immense effort, but which brought immense joy and great spiritual fruit (APim, pp. 105-106).
聖保祿到一個地方時，並不是偶然路過那裡去發表一場演講——而是留下來建設當地的教會：取得知識分子的認同、勸勉、皈依、與基督結合，幫助他們度全面基督徒的生活。 When Saint Paul arrived, he did not appear for an occasional lecture: but he stayed and formed: to ensure the consent of the intellect, to persuade, to convert, to unite with Christ, to begin a fully Christian life (APim, p. 227).
聖保祿留下長老們延續他的工作，他常以書信和話語陪伴他們；他渴望得知他們的消息，他在精神上與他們連結在一起，為他們祈禱。 Saint Paul used to entrust to some priests to continue his work; he often used to return there with his word and writing; he wanted news, he was with them in spirit, he prayed for them (APim, p. 227).
聖保祿在旅程中總是停留在有文化的繁榮城市，在那裡他建立了信仰的核心，就像一座火爐和一個中心，信仰從那裡——像是厄弗所、雅典、格林多、斐理伯、安提約基雅和羅馬——向四周散播。 In his journeys Saint Paul always sought out the great cities, the most cultured and commercial ones, where he established a nucleus of the faithful that were like a hearth and a centre from which the faith spread all around: like Ephesus, Athens, Corinth, Philippi, Antioch, Rome (APim, p. 88).
哦，聖保祿，你的仁慈使你自己為一切人成為一切，願你也能常看顧我這自私的人……變化我的心，重新喚醒我的愛心、慈善之心、奉獻之心。願你的心取代我的心。 O Saint Paul, who in your charity have made yourself everything to everyone, deign to look also at me who am often selfish... Change my heart: awaken in me feelings of kindness, of charity, of dedication. Make my heart according to your heart (BM, p. 107).
透過聖保祿的書信去認識並默想他的生活和工作；按照他的方式來思考、推理、說話和行動；並祈求他父愛的幫助。 Know and meditate on Saint Paul in his life, works, and letters; think, reason, speak, and work according to him; and invoke his paternal assistance (ACV, p. 63).
