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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.

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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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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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
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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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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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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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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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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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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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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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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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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
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No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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