Evelyn Underhill Quotes

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• We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do.
• For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
• 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…
• I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
• Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.
• Adoration is caring for God above all else.
• The business and method of mysticism is love.
• Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
• As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so…
• 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…
• All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives.
• You don't have to be peculiar to find God,
• 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.
• The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
• Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
• The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

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