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

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.

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

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

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.

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

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.