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God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
Evelyn Underhill
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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.
Evelyn Underhill -
Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
Evelyn Underhill -
The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction - not merely the idea - that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.
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As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship.
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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
Evelyn Underhill -
Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.
Evelyn Underhill
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Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
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The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.
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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.
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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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The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.
Evelyn Underhill
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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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.
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Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.
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Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!
Evelyn Underhill