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We have descended into the gar...

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

In the created world around us...

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

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

The life, beauty and meaning o...

The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute Life and Beauty of its Creator: and so lived, every bit has spiritual significance.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

If God were small enough to be...

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

I have just been given a very ...

I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

When you let intution have its...

When you let intution have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of all activities.

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The first question here, then,...

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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The spiritual life is not a sp...

The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.

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Delicate humor is the crowning...

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

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But so many Christians are lik...

But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.

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We mostly spend [our] lives co...

We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.

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The practical life of a vast n...

The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.

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Many people feel unaware of an...

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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The business and method of mys...

The business and method of mysticism is love.

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Mysticism is the art of union ...

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

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As the beautiful does not exis...

As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet aloneЂ'though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other menЂ'so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

As the genuine religious impul...

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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All artist are of necessity in...

All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives.

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You don't have to be peculiar ...

You don't have to be peculiar to find God,

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If by losing the spirit of pra...

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

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