“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 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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”