“… a whole pile of people… clai[m] to find the causes of every incident and to see in the secrets of the divine will the incomprehensible motives of his works; and although the variety and continual discordance of events tosses them from corner to corner and from east to west, yet they do not stop chasing their ball and painting black and white with the same pencil.”

I.32 “We should meddle soberly with judging divine ordinances” (p. 194)