It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.
To understand is to forgive.
If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.
No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.