“God is a cloud from which rain fell.”
“Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.”
“Beautiful, see the cloud, the cloud appear. Beautiful, see the rain, the rain draw near...”
“She said also that while the rain fell by the will of God evil chose its own hour and that those whom it sought out were perhaps not entirely lacking of some certain darkness in themselves. She said that the heart betrayed itself and hte wicked often had eyes to see that which was hidden from the good.”
“Can you climb high enough to get above the clouds, look down on the rain from a place in the sun?”
“A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds.'Why?' someone asked him.'To squeeze out the rain.”