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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
Evelyn Underhill
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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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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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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
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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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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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God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
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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 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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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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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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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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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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