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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Evelyn Underhill

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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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Many people feel unaware of any guidance, unable to discern or understand the signals of God not because the signals are not given, but because the mind is too troubled, clouded, and hurried to receive them.
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.
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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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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.
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I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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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.
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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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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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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.
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A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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