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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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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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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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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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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 mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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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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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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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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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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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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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 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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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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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
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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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