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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.
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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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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