Evelyn Underhill Quotes - Page 4

• La adoración es cuidar de Dios por encima de todo.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Caring, Adoration

  Evelyn Underhill, Grace Aldophsen Brame (1993). “The Ways of the Spirit”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Choices, Cost

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed”, p.16, Aeterna Press

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• Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Thinking, House, Meditation

  Evelyn Underhill, Aeterna Press (2014). “Practical Mysticism”, p.34, Aeterna Press

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• Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Happiness, Saint, Sense Of Humor

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• Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Men, Worship, Response

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• Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Choices, Tasks

  Evelyn Underhill (1940). “Abba: Meditations Based on the Lord's Prayer”

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• Tu soñador puede prescindir de un credo, pero siempre quiere un ritual.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Dreamer, May, Want

  Evelyn Underhill (1907). “The Lost Word”

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

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  Fall, Men, Grace

  Evelyn Underhill (1937). “The Spiritual Life”

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• As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Sheep, Perception, May

  Evelyn Underhill, Aeterna Press (2014). “Practical Mysticism”, p.17, Aeterna Press

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• En mis relaciones con mi padre, que son difíciles y en las que a menudo me encuentro con frialdad e indiferencia, me siento constantemente tentado a ser frío e indiferente. Sin embargo, sé que se trata de una prueba si sé tomarla bien.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Father, Tests, Cold

  Evelyn Underhill (2011). “Fragments from an Inner Life: The Notebooks of Evelyn Underhill”, p.94, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction - not merely the idea - that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Ideas, Voice, House

  Evelyn Underhill, Christopher L. Webber (2006). “Advent with Evelyn Underhill”, p.27, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

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  Teacher, Kindness, Fascination

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• I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.

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  Dark, Ideas, Heaven

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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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  Inspiración, Espiritual, Oración

  Evelyn Underhill, Grace Aldophsen Brame (1993). “The Ways of the Spirit”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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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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  Prayer, Mean, Doe

  Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.159, University of Illinois Press

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• religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Blood, Religion, Cold

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mixed Pasture: Twelve Essays and Addresses”, p.24, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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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  Soul, Lap, Looks

  Evelyn Underhill (2012). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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

  Evelyn Underhill

  Mistake, Thinking, Afterlife

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• No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Ordinary, Belief, Individual

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness”, p.16, Aeterna Press

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