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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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Feelings
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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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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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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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