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 impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.

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

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.

I believe in order that I may understand.

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

But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.