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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

Evelyn Underhill

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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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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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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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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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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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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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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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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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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
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