"Books," said St. Augustine after his conversion, "could
not teach me charity." We still keep on thinking they can. We
do not realize... the utter distinctness of God and the things
of God. Psychology of religion can not teach us prayer, and
ethics cannot teach us love. Only Christ can do that, and He
teaches by the direct method, in and among the circumstances of
life. He does not mind about our being comfortable. He wants
us to be strong, able to tackle life and be Christians, be
apostles in life, so we must be trained by the ups and downs,
the rough-and-tumble of life. Team games are compulsory in the
school of Divine Love -- there is no getting into a corner with
a nice, spiritual book.
Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), Light of Christ
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