Quotes by Evelyn Underhill

About Evelyn Underhill:

Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism.
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For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday

Evelyn Underhill

In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and sp...

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Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing visio...

Evelyn Underhill

The business and method of mysticism is love.

Evelyn Underhill

Eternity is with us, inviting our contemplation perpetually, but we are too frightened, lazy, and suspicious to respond; too arrogant to still our thought, and let divine sensation have its way. It needs industry and goodwill if we would make that tr...

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As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their meas...

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Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his latent faculties, a bracing and brightening of his languid consciousness, an emancipation from the fetters of appearance, a turning of his attention...

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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

Evelyn Underhill

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

Evelyn Underhill

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

Evelyn Underhill

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

You don't have to be peculiar to find God.

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Adoration is caring for God above all else.

Evelyn Underhill

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

Evelyn Underhill

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

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God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Evelyn Underhill

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

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The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.

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The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

Evelyn Underhill

Author Bio

  • NameEvelyn Underhill
  • DescriptionBritish saint
  • BornDecember 6, 1875
  • DiedJune 15, 1941
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer