One likes one's saints to be 'meaningless'

.... That friend of mine, for example - except as serving the divine mission of Christ, his life was meaningless; and it was meaningless except as directed to that great goal or consummation, where all things shall be fulfilled in the light of the countenance of God.

Here then is the principle of breadth, to set beside the principle of narrowness. Spiritual truth is narrow, in the sense that the sort of spiritual evidence which will carry weight fills a minute area. But again, and in another sense, spiritual truth is broad. For no piece of this most rare and precious evidence can be understood by itself, but only as a detail in the vast divine action it subserves. Our weak prayers and weaker virtues are understood in the saints, and the saints on earth are understood in Jesus Christ; while Jesus Christ, the saints and our own Christian existence are understood in that end alone towards which they strive, and in assuring which the love of God to us is love indeed.

There light spills evermore from the fountain of light; it fills the creatures of God with God as much as they will contain, and yet enlarges their heart and vision to contain the more. There it is all one to serve and to pray, for God invisible is visibly portrayed in the actions he inspires. There the flame of deity burns in the candle of mankind, Jesus Christ; and all the saints, united with him, extend his person, diversify his operation, and catch the running fire. That is the Church, the Israel of God, of which we only exist as colonies and outposts, far removed and fitfully aware; yet able by faith to annihilate both time and distance, and offer with them the only pleasing sacrifice to God Almighty.....

- Austin Farrer, Narrow and Broad (1960)