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 attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.

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 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.

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

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

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.