Original sentence: All those who have attained a high degree of holiness have learnt  to rejoice in suffering, because by it their love to God was freed from every element of self-seeking, and their lives conformed to that of their Master.Another characteristic of holiness according to the Christian ideal is love of suffering; not as though pleasure were evil in itself, but because suffering is the great means by which our love of God is intensified and purified.As applied to God it denotes that absolute moral perfection which is His by nature.As used of a society, the term means.Hence holiness is said to belong to God by essence, and to creatures only by participation.In regard to men it signifies a close union with God, together with the moral perfection resulting from this union.It is further manifest that the Church's holiness must be of an entirely supernatural character —— something altogether beyond the power of unassisted human nature.The term “sanctity” is employed in somewhat different senses in relation to God, to individual men, and to a corporate body.Whatever sanctity they possess comes to them as a Divine gift.that the lives of its members correspond, at least in some measure, with the purpose of the society, and display a real, not a merely nominal holiness.that this society aims at producing holiness in its members, and is possessed of means capable of securing that result, and
Edited sentence: Some Catholic theologians expound upon the idea of the one who is sanctified being free from sin