The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given