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.

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.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

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.

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.

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.