Quotemeal: May. 22nd, 1958

Thursday, May 22, 1958

"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

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"God denies a Christian nothing, but with a design to give him something better."
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— William Langford —
"The more man becomes irradiated with the divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man."
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Illustration of Evelyn Underhill — "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."

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