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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

Evelyn Underhill

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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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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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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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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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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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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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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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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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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 primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
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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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I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!
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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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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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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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