Evelyn Underhill

(16 votes)   Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

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(14 votes)   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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(13 votes)   Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

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(78 votes)   Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

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(18 votes)   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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(16 votes)   The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.

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(15 votes)   Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

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

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(15 votes)   God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

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(15 votes)   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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(14 votes)   Do not be scrupulous and think it selfish. You are obeying God's call and giving Him the opportunity to teach you what He wants you to know.

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(14 votes)   Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

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(13 votes)   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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(13 votes)   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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(12 votes)   In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

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