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

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.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.