A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
God is a being who is himself the cause of his own existence. His prerogative is to perceive before there was anything to be perceived. He is the creator of the universe; He operated upon nothing and turned it into something.
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
God is no respecter of persons or causes.
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
Everything that happens is determined by God.