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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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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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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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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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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.
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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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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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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is 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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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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