Disasters Teach Us Humility.

I Do Not Try, Lord, To Attain Your Lofty Heights, Because My Understanding Is In No Way Equal To It. But I Do Desire To Understand Your Truth A Little, That Truth That My Heart Believes And Loves. I Do Not Seek To Understand That I May Believe; But I Believe So That I May Understand. For I Believe This Also, That Unless I Believe, I Shall Not Understand.

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.

I Believe In Order That I May Understand.

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.

It Is, Therefore, Not Proper For God Thus To Pass Over Sin Unpunished.