But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing. For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror.

For he studied himself and went his way, and immediately he forgot what he was like.

Elijah was a man of like passion as we are. And he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for the time of three years and six months.