The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.

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.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.