Idleness is the enemy of the soul.
It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
Disasters teach us humility.
Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
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.
God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.