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.

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

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.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.

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 good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.