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.

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

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.

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 will of God is single and totally one in Him.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.