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It is far easier, though not ...

It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are to co-operate with the Spirit, and try to do the Will.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

If by losing the spirit of pr...

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

Saints are the great teachers...

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

Your dreamer may do without a...

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

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

Spiritual reading is a regula...

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

It is immediately apparent, h...

It is immediately apparent, however, that this sense-world, this seemingly real external universe - though it may be useful and valid in other respects - cannot be the external world, but only the Self's projected picture of it ... The evidence of the senses, then, cannot be accepted as evidence of the nature of ultimate reality; useful servants, they are dangerous guides.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

The life of prayer is so grea...

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 133 quotes

Meditation is a half-way hous...

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

Christian history looks glori...

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.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

I have an idea heaven will be...

I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

Man's will and God's grace ri...

Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

though humility and acknowled...

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.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

In the created world around u...

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

In prayer the soul comes near...

In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

Never let yourself think that...

Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and demands of a very practical sort---that all these need separate you from communion with Him. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament; however unexpected its outward form may be receive Him in every sight and sound, joy, pain, opportunity and sacrifice.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

I do not think reading the my...

I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' - but the mystics don't deal with feelings but with love which is a very different thing. You have too many 'feelings,' but not nearly enough love.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

The heart outstrips the clums...

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

A simple rule, to be followed...

A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

Spiritual achievement costs m...

Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

Many people feel unaware of a...

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.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

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