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Evelyn Underhill (6 December 1875 – 15 June 1941) was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism.

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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.

Humility, Real, Spiritual, Though, Tummy

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Deliberately, Kindness, Opportunities, Patience, Seek, Sympathy

The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.

Ends, Inexhaustible, Note, Notes, Possibility

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

Differences, Execution, Martyrdom, Whole

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

Fall, Grace, Men, Rise

The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

Long, Safe, Safety, What Matters

For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of air on our bodies, or the action of light. Our field of attention is not wide enough for that; our spiritual senses are not sufficiently alert. Most people work so hard at developing their correspondence with the visible world, that their power of correspondence with the invisible is left in a rudimentary state.

Air, Light, People, Power, Spiritual

A saint is simply a human being whose soul has. . . grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.

Contact, Mystery, Saint, Soul, Term

As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

Self, Social, Spiritual, World

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

Depends, Growth, Wall, Walls

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.

Deep, Doe, Losing, Mean, Prayer, Sensations

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

Artist, Environmental, Eternal, Eternal Love, World

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.

Activities, Levels, Opening Up, Way, World

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

Longing, Mysticism, Passionate, Soul

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

Acting, God, Soul, Spiritual, Time

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

God, Peculiar

Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!

Afterlife, Improved, Mistake, Think, Thinking

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

Happiness, Humor, Saint, Saints, Sense Of Humor, Virtue

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.

Christian, Prayer, Purpose, Responsibility, True, Whole

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

Achievement, Cost, Spiritual, Worth

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