聖德

少了謙虛，不能建樹什麼；在謙虛中，蕴含著我們的成聖和人性的幸福。驕傲的人，即使現在過得好，到了最後也會發現自己的悲慘。謙虛使人親近天主、親近人。謙虛就是真理。 Without humility nothing is achieved; in humility, instead, we find our sanctification and human happiness itself. The proud, even in the present life, will end up feeling bad... Humility makes man dear to God and dear to men. Humility is truth (RSP, p. 319).

信德透過愛德而工作，使我們與耶穌基督結合，在耶穌基督內，聖德——天主的生命——成了血肉之軀。不單如此，它在我們內創造新人，被耶穌基督的精神所激勵的新人。 Faith, working through charity, unites us to Jesus Christ in whom holiness, the divine life, is incarnated. It does more: it creates in us a new being, animated by the spirit of Jesus Christ (DF, 64).