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“So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God.”

Source: The Works of Charles Kingsley: Yeast

“It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.”

Way Christian Universe Differences Accepting Emotional Saint Passionate Practicals Resignation Stoic Religious Experience

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.”

Feels Humans Soul Universe Term Human Beings Environment Wonderful Mystery Possibility Bigger Infinite Response Saint Deeper Contact Generous Stature Infinite Possibilities

Book:Lent With Evelyn Underhill

Source: Lent With Evelyn Underhill

“I hope the doctrine that Christians ought to be gloomy will soon be driven out of the universe. There are no people in the world who have such a right to be happy, nor have such cause to be joyful as the saints of the living God.”

People World Christian Universe Causes Ought Saint Driven Doctrine Joyful Gloomy

Book:Collected Works Vol. 2

Source: Collected Works Vol. 2