Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.

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.

It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

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.