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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
Evelyn Underhill
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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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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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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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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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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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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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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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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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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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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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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!
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Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.
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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.
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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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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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