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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.

Evelyn Underhill

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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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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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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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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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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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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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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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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
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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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As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.
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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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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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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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Many people feel unaware of any guidance, unable to discern or understand the signals of God not because the signals are not given, but because the mind is too troubled, clouded, and hurried to receive them.
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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
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