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.

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 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 will of God is single and totally one in Him.

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.

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