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.

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.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

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.

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.