It Is Impossible To Save One's Soul

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.

Remove Grace, And You Have Nothing Whereby To Be Saved. Remove Free Will And You Have Nothing That Could Be Saved.

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.

God Does Not Delay To Hear Our Prayers Because He Has No Mind To Give; But That, By Enlarging Our Desires, He May Give Us The More Largely.

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.