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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.

Evelyn Underhill

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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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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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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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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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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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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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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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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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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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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
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