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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.
Evelyn Underhill
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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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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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It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.
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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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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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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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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 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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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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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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The business and method of mysticism is love.
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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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