The Virtue Of Contentment Is The Acquiescence

The Good Pleasure Of God Is An Act Of The Divine Will Freely And Effectively Determining All Things.

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.

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.

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.

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.