Evelyn Underhill Quotes
Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
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I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.
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Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
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No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be;I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
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Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.
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Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.
