DESCARTES

 
"The existence of God is the first and the most eternal of all truths that exist and the only one from which proceed all others."
(Descartes, 1963, 265)

"It is certain that He is the author of the essence as well as the existence of His creatures."
(Ibid, 267)

"I know that God is the author of all things...I said that I know , not that I think nor that I understand; because we know that God is infinite and omnipotent."
(Ibid, 267)

"It is in God the same thing to will, to understand and to create without one preceding the other."
(Ibid, 268)

"God brings everything to its perfection."
(Ibid, 269)