All Quotes

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence. ”

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. ”

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

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

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature. ”