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).
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).
聖體是偉大的轉化工具：在其中，靈魂感到與耶穌親近，在其中，靈魂接受耶穌的想法，感受到耶稣的心和耶穌的意願。 Communion is a great means for transformation: it is there that the soul feels close to Jesus, it is there that the soul adopts the way of thinking of Jesus and the feelings of Jesus’ heart and the will of Jesus (AP 1960, p. 100).
願保祿家庭完全接枝在基督內。我們決不可離開基督——祂是神聖的橄欖樹、結果實的橄欖樹。無論是一個月、一星期或甚至一天，都不可以不來取食這生命之糧。 May the Pauline Family be completely grafted into Christ. InChrist, the holy olive, the fruit-bearing olive... Let us never leave, neither for a month, nor for a week, nor for a day, without coming to eat this bread of life (FSP59, p. 90).
只有一個身體：即使在物質方面，也要彼此幫忙，如此是幫助了修會整體。只有一個精神：也就是你們都採用同樣的祈禱方式。只有一個希望：就是追求至善，邁向【將得到百倍的賞報並擁有永生】的目標。 Only one body: even in material things, one to help the others, and to help the whole Institute. Only one spirit: the same way of praying. One single hope, and that is all aimed at perfection, towards the «centuplum accipietis, et vitam aeternam possidebitis» (AP 1960, pp. 201-202).
在工作中，我希望全心全意地工作。我特别想向謙卑的耶稣祈求，希望祂能與我結合在一起，使我的生命成為祂的生命。 I want to work with all the alacrity of mind and heart, and of the task. Especially I want to pray so much to Jesus humble of heart, that He may be united with me and transform my life into His (Diario di D. Giaccardo, 15 June 1915).
信德！有信德！我們就會在喜樂中工作：某人以一種方式貢獻使徒工作，另一個人以別的方式貢獻使徒工作，是這樣沒錯，但我們是一起從事出版使徒工作。需要有信德！信德——求主增加我們的信德。 Faith, faith. Then we work in joy: and one contributes to the apostolate in one form, the other in another form, yes, but all together we do the apostolate of publications. It takes faith, faith: ask the Lord for an increase of faith (AP 1963, p. 75).
「哪裡有仁愛，那裡就有天主」，倘若破壞了愛德，或者出現對立的判斷、批評、反感，或者有思想和行動上的分裂，漸漸地，天主的臨在就會減少。在愛德中團結一致，就會有平安、有聖德。 «Where there is charity, there is God», or the presence of God is lost as the bonds of charity are broken or contrary judgments or criticisms or dislikes or divisions of thought and activity arise. With unity in charity there is peace and there is holiness (AP 1958/2, pp. 140-141).
天主聖言是有效的，不要常因我們自己的因素而削弱它的效能。聖保祿是怎樣宣講的？宗徒們是怎樣宣講的？教會的教父們又如何宣講？宣講需要努力、堅持、熱忱、心意純正：它要求我們有耶稣的心和祂對人靈的愛。 The Word of God has innate power: it often depends on us not to reduce it. How did St. Paul preach? How did the Apostles preach? How did the great doctors of the Church preach? This ministry requires hard work, perseverance, zeal, and right intention: it requires that we possess the heart of Jesus, […]
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).
我們的奉獻生活必須不斷地進步：在思想上、在意志上、在心靈上，使耶穌真正成為整個生命的中心，並反覆聖保祿的話：【生活已不是我生活，而是耶穌在我內生活】。 Offering (of self) must be lived with an ever growing rhythm: in the mind... in the will... in the heart... so that Jesus may truly become the centre of all life and we may be able to repeat with Saint Paul: «It is no longer I who live, it is Jesus who lives in […]
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).
