"There remains only the inquiry as to the way in which I received this idea from God; for I have not drawn it from the…"

"He [God] cannot be a deceiver, since it is a dictate of the natural light that all fraud and deception spring from so…"

"I observe that there is not only present to my consciousness a real and positive idea of God, or of a being supremely…"

"The unity, the simplicity, or inseparability of all the properties of Deity, is one of the chief perfections I concei…"

"The mind in conceiving turns in some way upon itself, and considers some one of the ideas it possesses within itself;…"

"When I make myself the object of reflection, I not only find that I am an incomplete, [imperfect] and dependent being…"

"I was readily persuaded that I had no idea in my intellect which had not formerly passed through the senses."

"I do not find that, from the distinct idea of corporeal nature I have in my imagination, I can necessarily infer the …"

"In all fraud and deceit there is a certain imperfection: and although it may seem that the ability to deceive is a ma…"

"Just as we learn by faith that the supreme felicity of another life consists in the contemplation of the Divine majes…"