“In faith,” says Kierkegaard, “the self bases itself transparently on the power which created it.” The whole life of prayer is indeed a committal of our separate lives into God’s hand, a perpetual replacing of the objective attitude by the personal and abandoned attitude; and though a certain tension, suffering and bewilderment are inevitable… Continue reading Thursday of the First Week in Lent: God and Prayer – Evelyn Underhill
"O Support Me," says Newman, "as I proceed in this great, awful, happy change, with the grace of Thy unchangeableness. My unchangeableness, here below, is perseverance in changing." The inner life consists in an enduring of this deep transforming process. The chief object of prayer is to help it on: not merely for our own… Continue reading Wednesday of the First Week In Lent: God and Self-Offering – Evelyn Underhill
But the creative action of the Spirit penetrates the whole of life, and is felt by us in all sorts of ways. If our idea of that creative action is so restricted that we fail to recognize it working within the homely necessities and opportunities of our visible life, we may well suspect the quality… Continue reading Tuesday of the First Week in Lent: Creation, Change, Holiness – Evelyn Underhill
If the Reality of God were small enough to be grasped, it would not be great enough to be adored; and so our holiest privilege would go. "I count not myself to have grasped; but as one that has been grasped, I press on," says Saint Paul. But if all real knowledge here is a… Continue reading Monday of the First Week in Lent: God Makes, Loves, Keeps – Evelyn Underhill
For God, not man, is the first term of religion: and our first step in religion is the acknowledgement that He Is. All else is the unfolding of those truths about His life and our life, which this fact of facts involves. I believe in One God. We begin there; not with our own needs,… Continue reading First Sunday in Lent: God and Self Love
The Carpenter's Nail 