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 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.

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.

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 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.

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