The imagery through which the nature and kinship of the Three Persons of the Trinity were darkly shadowed forth in the books of devotion which he read-the Father contemplating from all eternity as in a mirror His Divine Perfections and thereby begetting eternally the Eternal Son and the Holy Spirit proceeding out of Father and Son from all eternity-were easier of acceptance by his mind by reason of their august incomprehensibility than was the simple fact that God had loved his soul from all eternity, for ages before he had been born into the world, for ages before the world itself had existed.
Irakurtzen zituen otoitz-liburuetan Trinitatearen Hiru Pertsonen izatasuna eta kidetasuna itzal ilunetan estaltzen zituen imajineria-Aita Bere Jainkozko Perfekzioari ispilu batean bezala betierean begira dagoena, hortik betierean sortzen duen Betiereko Semea, eta Espiritu Santua betiere guztian Aitarengandik eta Semearengandik datorrena-errazago onartzen zuen adimenak, zuen ulertezintasun bikainarengatik, Jainkoak arima betiere osoan, mundura jaio baino askoz lehenagotik, mundua bera ere sortu baino askoz lehenagotik, maite izana baino.