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.

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.

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

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

The will of God is single and totally one in Him.

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.