The Carpenter's Nail

It is one of the most distressing aspects of personal religion that we all waste so much of the very limited time which we are able to give it.  The waste can be classified under two main heads: distraction and dryness.  No one escapes these, but it concerns us all to reduce them as much… Continue reading Saturday of the Third Week in Lent: Distraction and Dryness – Evelyn Underhill

Christianity, of course, has often been described as a “life.”  The early Christians themselves called it not a belief, but a “way” – a significant fact, which the Church too quickly forgot; and the realist who wrote the Fourth Gospel called its founder both the life and the way.  But these terms have been employed… Continue reading Friday of the Third Week in Lent: The Way – Evelyn Underhill

There are seven dispositions in us which specially block the action of God and are hostile to the Holy; which twists our souls out of shape.  Theology calls them the seven deadly sins – deadly because once they get their claws into us they tend to spiritual extinction instead of spiritual life. Pride, uppishness, the… Continue reading Thursday of the Third Week in Lent: Seven Roads to Hell – Evelyn Underhill

I do not think you have ever made the Cross the centre of your life really.  I do not quite know what you have made the centre, but it looks as though it cannot be that.  And you have got to, you know.  Nothing else will do.  And if you do not accept it deliberately,… Continue reading Wednesday of the Third Week in Lent: Another Letter – The Cross; Evelyn Underhill