religious-emotion

Updated: June 3, 2025

In the intermediate term of the religious experience, that felt communion with a Person which is the clou of the devotional life, we get as it were the link between the extreme apprehensions of transcendence and of immanence, and their expression in the lives of contemplation and of action; and also a focus for that religious-emotion which is the most powerful stimulus to spiritual growth.

Evelyn Underhill - The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day