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.

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.

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.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

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

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 inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.