Evelyn Underhill
Try and see your ordinary daily life as the medium through which God is teaching your soul, and respond as well as you can. Then you won't need, in order to receive God's lessons, to go outside your normal experience. So to the type of prayer best for you is that to which you feel drawn in your best and quietest times and in which it is easiest for you to remain with God. Whether you do or don't use words or books is not very important. But there should be confidence and self-surrender in it, and of course prayer and self-offering for those you love and who need you.
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Thank you for this quotation from Evelyn Underhill. I wrote my MA thesis on her and it was a delightful 2 years of reading everything she wrote in the order in which she wrote and seeing what changes were made within her. I still continue to profit from her wisdom.
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