The Door Is Closed To Prayer Unless

No Man Can Come To God But By An Extraordinary Revelation Of The Spirit.

Nothing, Including Human Suffering, Happens By Chance.

There Is No Place For Faith If We Expect God To Fulfill Immediately What He Promises.

The Lord Has Not Redeemed You So You Might Enjoy Pleasures And Luxuries Or So That You Might Abandon Yourself To Ease And Indolence, But Rather So You Should Be Prepared To Endure All Sorts Of Evils.

For, To My Mind, This Is A Certain Principle, That Nothing Is Here Treated Of But The Visible Form Of The World. He Who Would Learn Astronomy, And Other Recondite Arts, Let Him Go Elsewhere. (on Commenting The Text Of Genesis 1:6)