Virtue and vice are not the same, even if they undergo the same torment.

Thus, in this universal catastrophe, the sufferings of Christians have tended to their moral improvement, because they viewed them with eyes of faith.

The violence which assails good men to test them, to cleanse and purify them, effects in the wicked their condemnation, ruin, and annihilation.

Translated: The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light,-although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.