I think your last sentence here is Truth in poetic form.
It is all those little souls out there who have nothing brilliant or clever or startling to say ( and they know this to be true), but who love the Lord with their whole mind and heart and soul and are graced mercifully while remaining obscure. Let’s face it—they are anawim (the poor and little ones)
For them it is all so simple. “God is kind and merciful.”
I have been so blessed to have known many people like this and I will always believe that they are the “salt of earth” and the “light of the world”. They inspired me so much more than they ever realized. That was part of their humility—they didn’t realize it.
We can be sure that the Pharisees of the Reformation will say, as the Pharisees said to the man born blind,"You were born in utter sin, and would you teach US?" Then they would return to thanking God that they are not as other men are, "... or even as this Catholic."
The god they proclaim is an exigent god who makes sure everyone believes just the right stuff in just the right way, and if they don't he rejects them and gives his servants authority to torment them.