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Adoration is caring for God above all else.

Evelyn Underhill

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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Adoration
Caring
God
Else

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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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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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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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The first question here, then, is not What is best for my soul? nor is it even What is most useful to humanity? But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?
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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
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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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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or 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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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.
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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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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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