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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!

Evelyn Underhill

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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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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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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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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
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The business and method of mysticism is love.
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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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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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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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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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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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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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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
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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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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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