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

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

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.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

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.

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

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

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.

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.

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 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.

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 world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

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

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.

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

The will of God is single and totally one in Him.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.

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.

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.

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

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

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.