By reason of that light given naturally to man by God and known as the light of the divine face, human reason dictates to each individual man that we are to think of the first principle in the highest and most reverent way; in the highest way because He proceeds from no other; in the most reverent way, because other things proceed from Him. In this there is agreement among Christians, Jews, and Saracens, and even heretics. But to think that God can and does wish to produce one equal to and consubstantial with Himself so that He might have an eternal beloved and cobeloved is indeed to think of God in the highest and most reverent way; for if one thinks that He is not capable of this, one does not think of Him in the highest way; and if one thinks that He is capable of this but does not will to do it, one does not think of God in the most reverent way.
[Bonaventure, Disputed Questions on the Mystery of the Trinity (1.2 concl.), Hayes, tr., The Franciscan Institute (St. Bonaventure, NY: 2000) p. 131.]
