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My growth depends on my walls coming down.

Evelyn Underhill

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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
Novelist
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Growth
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Walls
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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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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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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.
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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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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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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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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.
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.
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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 mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
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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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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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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
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