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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.
Evelyn Underhill
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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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