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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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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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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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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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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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In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.
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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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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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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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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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The business and method of mysticism is love.
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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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We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.
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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.
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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
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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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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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