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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.

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 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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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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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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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 passionate longing of the soul for God.
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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
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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 business and method of mysticism is love.
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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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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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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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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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