Part, Chapter

  1  Pref,   2|       quotes -- "you must always understand (them) to be approximate --
  2  Unic,   3|         company, that I began to understand the truth, which I had learned
  3  Unic,   4|       amazed me, for I could not understand whence it arose. Whenever
  4  Unic,   4|          Union, though I did not understand what either of these was,
  5  Unic,   6|      Lord, that, so far as I can understand, I am not lying. I am afraid,
  6  Unic,   8|                         I do not understand the fears of those who are
  7  Unic,  10|   important it is that we should understand the favours which the Lord
  8  Unic,  10|         the extent of all it can understand; for God wills it to realize
  9  Unic,  10|  bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly, how
 10  Unic,  10|          not be lawful for me to understand, realize and consider again
 11  Unic,  10|          I say that, as far as I understand myself at present, this
 12  Unic,  10|          hindrances, which, as I understand it, prevent people from
 13  Unic,  12|          God granted me grace to understand this truth, that it was
 14  Unic,  12|          had any experience will understand me and if what I have already
 15  Unic,  12|     reasoning in any way, it can understand more in a short space of
 16  Unic,  12|        may be, they will at once understand it.~
 17  Unic,  13|          and so we must learn to understand ourselves and walk warily.
 18  Unic,  13|          available, very hard to understand. It is for this reason that,
 19  Unic,  13|        allowing them to learn to understand themselves; for the soul,
 20  Unic,  13|         for directors who cannot understand spirituality afflict their
 21  Unic,  13|        head, he will give her to understand that it is better for her
 22  Unic,  14|           it seems to me, rarely understand where this satisfaction
 23  Unic,  14|        move its lips and He will understand it.~
 24  Unic,  14|         the soul itself does not understand them, or know what it ought
 25  Unic,  14|          as much as it can do to understand its own case, however much
 26  Unic,  14|      necessary that, in order to understand it, one must have reached
 27  Unic,  15|       danger. I am not sure if I understand what I am saying, because,
 28  Unic,  15|        is that it should come to understand the nature of this love
 29  Unic,  15|        to do in this state is to understand that there is no reason,
 30  Unic,  15|      this state of Quiet, I, who understand hardly anything that I recite
 31  Unic,  15|       have not only been able to understand the text as though it were
 32  Unic,  16|          wholly lost nor yet can understand how they work. The pleasure
 33  Unic,  16|         could neither decide nor understand the nature of this difference.
 34  Unic,  16|         I had never been able to understand its nature. I realized that
 35  Unic,  16|         from God but I could not understand the method of His working;
 36  Unic,  17|      give the faculties leave to understand, and have fruition of, the
 37  Unic,  17|      them and thus to be able to understand their nature. For it is
 38  Unic,  17|     favour; but quite another to understand what favour and what grace
 39  Unic,  17|      great benefit and favour to understand it, and it is right that
 40  Unic,  17|      until He gives you grace to understand it fully, just as He is
 41  Unic,  17|       and learning, will come to understand it as well. May He be praised
 42  Unic,  18|       proper terms, and I cannot understand what is meant by "mind"
 43  Unic,  18|   learning, Your Reverences will understand: there is nothing more that
 44  Unic,  18|        amazed at being unable to understand such truths. Dost Thou,
 45  Unic,  18|         heavenly love; but, as I understand it, the union itself is
 46  Unic,  18|        to raptures will, I know, understand it well. If he has not experienced
 47  Unic,  18|          can hear, but he cannot understand what he hears. He can apprehend
 48  Unic,  18|        has experienced this will understand something of it; it cannot
 49  Unic,  18|         in loving, but it cannot understand how it loves; the understanding,
 50  Unic,  18|         it understands, does not understand how it understands, or at
 51  Unic,  18|   because, as I say, it does not understand itself. Nor can I myself
 52  Unic,  18|         itself. Nor can I myself understand this.~
 53  Unic,  20|         me like this, and so now understand it better, my pulses almost
 54  Unic,  20|       subject can still hear and understand, but only dimly, as though
 55  Unic,  20|         say that he can hear and understand when the rapture is at its
 56  Unic,  20|     place. We cannot be meant to understand it while we are on earth --
 57  Unic,  20|        fact, does not wish us to understand it because we have not the
 58  Unic,  20|         by confessors who do not understand this, as I shall say later.
 59  Unic,  20|       point, Your Reverence will understand it, for the Lord has already
 60  Unic,  21|           If I could make others understand a single one of these truths
 61  Unic,  21|           O my God! Give them to understand how great are their obligations.
 62  Unic,  21|     hardly anything of myself; I understand clearly that it is all the
 63  Unic,  22|       call it Illuminative but I understand it to mean the life of those
 64  Unic,  23|      than gaining, but I did not understand the matter properly.~
 65  Unic,  23|        not offend Him and should understand how much I owed Him, my
 66  Unic,  23|        God's will that he should understand my own soul or desire to
 67  Unic,  23|       the grace of being able to understand their nature and to describe
 68  Unic,  23|   foundation, nor had I begun to understand the nature of mortification (
 69  Unic,  23|      What a great thing it is to understand a soul! He told me that
 70  Unic,  23|          us both, enabled him to understand my spiritual condition and
 71  Unic,  24|          that I might the better understand that resistance was no longer
 72  Unic,  25|          that Your Reverence may understand this. For, since the occasion
 73  Unic,  25|  although we may hear, we do not understand. But when God talks in this
 74  Unic,  25|         to what God wishes me to understand that whether I want to listen
 75  Unic,  25|         all-powerful wills us to understand, we have to do what He wills;
 76  Unic,  25|          suspended, can the soul understand things that had never come
 77  Unic,  25|       Either this soul wishes to understand or it does not: if it is
 78  Unic,  25|        and by their means we can understand things which it would probably
 79  Unic,  25|         of the things which they understand, the understanding and the
 80  Unic,  25|          of the good spirit will understand this.~
 81  Unic,  25|          we ought to fear203 and understand that one venial sin can
 82  Unic,  25|       who will fear me. I do not understand these fears. "Oh, the devil,
 83  Unic,  26|        living book." I could not understand why this had been said to
 84  Unic,  26|       days afterwards, I came to understand it very well, for what I
 85  Unic,  26|        had experience of it will understand it and see that I have succeeded
 86  Unic,  27|      what He wishes that soul to understand, and presents it, not by
 87  Unic,  27|     which God causes the soul to understand what He wills, and also
 88  Unic,  27|      mysteries; for often what I understand, when the Lord expounds
 89  Unic,  27|      soul saw nothing and cannot understand how the operation took place;
 90  Unic,  27|          just as souls in Heaven understand one another without speaking (
 91  Unic,  27|        is here. God and the soul understand each other, simply because
 92  Unic,  27|       other dearly, seem able to understand each other without making
 93  Unic,  28| completely absorbed. I could not understand why the Lord revealed Himself
 94  Unic,  28|      been pleased to grant me to understand how it is; and I am so ignorant,
 95  Unic,  29|   vehement impulses can possibly understand this: it is no question
 96  Unic,  29|         that I was never able to understand how such a thing could be.
 97  Unic,  30|         of them, for I could not understand how distress and contentment
 98  Unic,  30|          I needed; for I did not understand myself then as I do now,
 99  Unic,  30|        granted me the ability to understand and describe the favours
100  Unic,  30|        such a person alone could understand me and interpret my experiences.
101  Unic,  30|     which were not imaginary, to understand what they could all mean:
102  Unic,  30|          did not see how I could understand the nature of visions which
103  Unic,  30|   effects which might help it to understand its condition.~
104  Unic,  30|     though I did not, of course, understand it properly then, as I do
105  Unic,  31|          and angels. I could not understand the meaning of that vision,
106  Unic,  31|        of understanding, it must understand clearly that it has nothing
107  Unic,  31|      given us the grace fully to understand the nature of everything;
108  Unic,  32|      exaggerated, nor can anyone understand them. I felt a fire within
109  Unic,  32|      blackest darkness. I do not understand how this can be, but, although
110  Unic,  33|       here was a soul that would understand and be in harmony with mine,
111  Unic,  33|          been sure that he would understand me; but I had never spoken
112  Unic,  33|    appeared to me and gave me to understand that money would not be
113  Unic,  33|          upon me. I was given to understand that I was now cleansed
114  Unic,  34|         of years we are bound to understand things that cannot possibly
115  Unic,  34|     impossible because he cannot understand it, he will gain little
116  Unic,  34|           But we cannot properly understand this until we have given
117  Unic,  35|         to forgo it. I could not understand how this was possible, for
118  Unic,  35|            As I say, I could not understand how this was possible. But
119  Unic,  35|     valley of humility. I cannot understand why it is that people are
120  Unic,  36|       was the work of the devil, understand the truth and know that
121  Unic,  36|      taken place so that I might understand what a great favour He had
122  Unic,  36|      speak only of God, and they understand no one who speaks of anything
123  Unic,  36|           nor does such a person understand them. We observe the rule
124  Unic,  37|      Personally, I simply cannot understand this. It has occurred to
125  Unic,  38|       God, and so far as I could understand, He was certainly with me
126  Unic,  38|          that, as far as one can understand, there is no possibility
127  Unic,  38|         the Lord has given me to understand about them.~
128  Unic,  38|         I was quite well able to understand, but it remained so indelibly
129  Unic,  39|     sense, for then I should not understand how much evil is in me.
130  Unic,  39|       that all I could do was to understand that I was incapable of
131  Unic,  39|      experiencing. He gave me to understand that, when so many persons,
132  Unic,  39|          It spoken of, I seem to understand how there can be such a
133  Unic,  40|      this Majesty I was given to understand a truth which is the fulfilment
134  Unic,  40|     describe; but I can at least understand that it is a great thing.
135  Unic,  40|          it may be that I cannot understand these visions, which do
136  Unic,  40|        hell; it is impossible to understand how grave an offence it