At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.