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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Evelyn Underhill
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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
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The first question here, then, is not What is best for my soul? nor is it even What is most useful to humanity? But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?
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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
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The business and method of mysticism is love.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.
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Christian history looks glorious in retrospect but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.
Evelyn Underhill
The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute Life and Beauty of its Creator: and so lived, every bit has spiritual significance.
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On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.
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It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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The Christian is the person who sees every time and every situation, however dreary and repetitive, as God sees it - a fresh creation from his hand, demanding its own response in perhaps a wholly new and creative way. Under God he is free over it. He has won through to a purchase over events he has risen with Christ.
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As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.
Evelyn Underhill
If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.
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