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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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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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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 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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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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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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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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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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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
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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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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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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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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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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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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 will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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