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 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.

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

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.

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

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.