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

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

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

"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…"

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

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

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

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

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

"I have been habituated these bygone days to detach my mind from the senses, and I have accurately observed that there…"