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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God...
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Religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.
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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!
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Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.
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Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!
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It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
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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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God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the 'irritating details of outer life.'
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In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.
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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.
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Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.
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No nation is truly defeated which retains its spiritual self-possession. No nation is truly victorious which does not emerge soul unstained.
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The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.
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True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations : quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other.
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All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love.
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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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As it is not by the methods of the laboratory that we learn to know life, so it is not by the methods of the intellect that we learn to know God.
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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.
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We have descended into the garden and caught 300 slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.
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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.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Evelyn Underhill
Born:
December 6, 1875
Died:
June 15, 1941
(aged 65)
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