Evelyn Underhill Citas

• Si Dios fuera lo suficientemente pequeño para ser comprendido, no sería lo suficientemente grande para ser adorado.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Dios, Cristiano, Religioso

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• 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.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Three, Verbs, Fundamentals

  Evelyn Underhill, Christopher L. Webber (2006). “Advent with Evelyn Underhill”, p.43, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• Dios siempre viene a ti en el Sacramento del Momento Presente. Encuéntralo y recíbelo allí con gratitud en ese sacramento.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Gratitude, Moments, Sacraments

  Evelyn Underhill (1960). “The Mount of Purification”

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• For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

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  Beauty, Elude Us, Attention

  Evelyn Underhill, Dana Greene (1988). “Evelyn Underhill: Modern Guide to the Ancient Quest for the Holy”, p.75, SUNY Press

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• No pienses que debes avanzar en tu oración. Si lo haces, sólo descubrirás que has puesto el freno en lugar de acelerar. Todo progreso real en las cosas espirituales llega suavemente, imperceptiblemente, y es obra de Dios. Nuestros toscos esfuerzos lo estropean. Conócete a ti mismo como el alma infantil, limitada y dependiente que eres. Recuerda que el único crecimiento que importa ocurre sin nuestro conocimiento y que tratar de esforzarnos es peligroso y tonto. Piensa en la Bondad Infinita, nunca en tu propio estado.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Dios, Cristiano, Espiritual

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• 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

  People, Mind, Guidance

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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.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Cutting, Love Is, Creative

  Evelyn Underhill (1923). “The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today”

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• My growth depends on my walls coming down.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Wall, Growth, Depends

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• 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.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Prayer, Responsibility

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed”, p.100, Aeterna Press

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• Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Soul, Passionate, Longing

  Evelyn Underhill (1960). “The Mount of Purification”

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• 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.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Believe, Symphony

  Evelyn Underhill, Christopher L. Webber (2006). “Advent with Evelyn Underhill”, p.17, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Soul, Individual

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mixed Pasture: Twelve Essays and Addresses”, p.51, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Sympathy, Patience, Kindness

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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.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Happiness, Real, Personality

  Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.273, University of Illinois Press

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• This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Joy, Secret, Suffering

  Evelyn Underhill (1990). “Lent With Evelyn Underhill”, p.83, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Character, Soul, Corners

  Evelyn Underhill (2011). “Fragments from an Inner Life: The Notebooks of Evelyn Underhill”, p.85, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Soul, Acting

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• On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Prayer, Effort, Done

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• The Christian is the person who sees every time and every situation, however dreary and repetitive, as God sees it - a fresh creation from his hand, demanding its own response in perhaps a wholly new and creative way. Under God he is free over it. He has won through to a purchase over events; he has risen with Christ.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Hands, Creative

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• 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

  Gratitude, Jobs, Pain

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• It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Years, Sin, Hours

  Evelyn Underhill (2009). “The Grey World”, p.195, Scriptoria Books

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• El cristianismo es una religión que nos concierne tal como somos aquí y ahora, criaturas de cuerpo y alma. No "seguimos las huellas de su vida santísima" mediante el ejercicio de una imaginación religiosa entrenada, sino pisando la tierra firme y áspera, cuesta arriba y cuesta abajo.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Cristiano, Religioso, Oración

  Evelyn Underhill (1956). “The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed. The Mystery of Sacrifice, a Meditation on the Liturgy”

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• En el misticismo, ese amor a la verdad que vimos como el principio de toda filosofía abandona la esfera meramente intelectual y adopta el aspecto seguro de una pasión personal. Donde el filósofo conjetura y argumenta, el místico vive y mira; y habla, en consecuencia, el desconcertante lenguaje de la experiencia de primera mano, no la prolija dialéctica de las escuelas. Así, mientras que el Absoluto de los metafísicos sigue siendo un diagrama -impersonal e inalcanzable-, el Absoluto de los místicos es amable, alcanzable, vivo.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Philosophy, Passion, School

  Evelyn Underhill (2012). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Prayer, Live Life

  Evelyn Underhill (1990). “Lent With Evelyn Underhill”, p.74, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• La mística es el arte de la unión con la Realidad.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Art, Reality, Unions

  Evelyn Underhill, Aeterna Press (2014). “Practical Mysticism”, p.10, Aeterna Press

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