迫害是煽动德行火焰的风箱：天主容许迫害，因为缺少迫害，我们的力量将渐次寂灭， 无法正确行事。 Persecution is the bellows that fans the flame of our virtue: if it were lacking—which God forbid—our strength would die away and not perform its task rightly.

由于大自然的丰厚恩赐，运气好的世俗人， 亦同样更成功地热心显露主的光荣。 Those who in the world would, through nature’s bounty, have met with the best fortune have likewise greater success in zealously showing forth the glory of God.

为得救而抵抗魔鬼，必须利用魔鬼滥用于毁灭我们的武器对付牠。 We must use the same weapons against the devil for our salvation as he abuses for our destruction.

理应禁止超越规定的公开克己苦身； 勿忘听命胜过牺牲，也避免我们愚妄地自吹自擂。

当事事顺遂时，要小心提防， 以免并非一切都像事奉天主那么好。 When everything goes favorably, beware lest all is not so well as it might be with the service of God.

为赚得所有人，明智的捕人渔夫该使自己适应一切，尽管尝试成功不大。 The wise fisher of men, in order to gain all, ought to attune himself to all, even though his attempts have small success.

我们曾滥用身心的力量，违背天主的法律行事， 现借着补赎，重新活在恩宠中，让我们用同样的力量，改善生命。 As we have made a bad use of the powers of our body and mind in acting against God’s law, so, now that by penance we have been restored to grace, let us use the same powers to amend our lives.

内心抗拒，勉强执行长上命令的人， 应归为最卑鄙的奴仆。 They who, though they indeed do what their superiors order, yet do it unwillingly and without interior consent, are to be numbered with the vilest slaves.

很少人知道，如果完全委顺于主手中， 天主会为他们做什么。 How few people realize what God would do for them if they were to give themselves up wholly into his hands!

不但要继续彼此相爱、互相珍惜， 更要向所有人传达这爱。 Not only ought you to continually love and cherish each other but to communicate that love to all men.

为得救而善用耶稣圣血恩赐的人是多么少呀。 How few there are who use for their salvation the gift of Jesus’ Blood!

既然天主提供你多样援助及方法， 向着你被召叫的目标悉力以赴。 Strive after the end to which you are called with all your might, since God has supplied you with so many aids and means thereto.