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
TO the alarming list of innate vices which you have managed to get together I should like to add another: Pride. All this preoccupation with your own imperfection is not humility, but an insidious for of spiritual pride. What do you expect to be? A Saint? There are desperately few of them: and even they… Continue reading Tuesday of the Third Week in Lent: A Letter to A Friend – Pride
This is not mere pious fluff. This is a terribly practical job; the only way in which we can contribute to the bringing in of the Kingdom of God. Humanitarian politics will not do it. Theological restatement will not do it. Holiness will do it. And for this growth toward holiness, it seems that it… Continue reading Monday of the Third Week in Lent: Holiness and the Two Loves – Evelyn Underhill
There is a wonderful chapter in Ruysbroeck’s “Book of the Twelve Beguines,” in which he describes the life of one who has achieved this state, as “ministering to the world without in love and in mercy; whilst inwardly abiding in simplicity, in stillness, and in utter peace.” Reading it, we remember that it was said… Continue reading Third Sunday in Lent: The Two Loves – Evelyn Underhill
The Carpenter's Nail 