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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.

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.

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.

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.