Disasters Teach Us Humility.

Idleness Is The Enemy Of The Soul.

And Indeed We Believe You [god] To Be Something Than Which A Greater Cannot Be Conceived.

O Supreme And Unapproachable Light! O Whole And Blessed Truth, How Far Art Thou From Me, Who Am So Near To Thee! How Far Removed Art Thou From My Vision, Though I Am So Near To Thine! Everywhere Thou Art Wholly Present, And I See Thee Not. In Thee I Move, And In Thee I Have My Being; And I Cannot Come To Thee. Thou Art Within Me, And About Me, And I Feel Thee Not.

There Is No Inconsistency In God's Commanding Us Not To Take Upon Ourselves What Belongs To Him Alone. For To Execute Vengeance Belongs To None But Him Who Is Lord Of All; For When The Powers Of The World Rightly Accomplish This End, God Himself Does It Who Appointed Them For The Purpose.

I Have Written The Little Work That Follows . . . In The Role Of One Who Strives To Raise His Mind To The Contemplation Of God And One Who Seeks To Understand What He Believes.