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.

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

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

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.

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.

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