This is where the false humility of our work-saints speaks out: “Ah, God forbid! How can anyone be so arrogant as to permit himself to be called holy when we are nothing but poor sinners, etc.?” I answer that all this talk comes from the old delusion according to which, whenever one hears about holiness, he simply gapes at outstanding, great works and looks to the saints in heaven, as though they had obtained and merited heaven by their works. But we say that Christ’s true saints must be good, strong