The text, simple and "luminous" including attempts to show how to believe and see intertwine to achieve a deep faith. Another great idea is developed in the encyclical that the bonds of love and truth, secrecy too often forgotten: "true love, to the extent of divine love, demands the truth and in the common glance the truth that is Jesus Christ, becomes solid and deep. "
The light of faith is also affirmed as a necessity, capable of valuing the richness of human relations: "Faith does not move away from the world and not remain alien to the concrete commitment of our contemporaries. Without a trustworthy love, nothing could keep men united them. "
With humility and to conclude the Pope explains how the Blessed Virgin Mary has made under these principles and said, borrowing to the poet Thomas Stearns: "Have you perhaps need to be told that even these modest successes / that allow you to be proud of an educated society / difficult to follow the faith to which they owe their meaning ".