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

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

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

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

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.

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.

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.