Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhillwas an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth6 December 1875
Evelyn Underhill quotes about
beauty beautiful garden
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.
art prayer fixing
The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.
acceptance reality religion
The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.
life spiritual simple
A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.
spiritual men careers
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.
looks impossible
It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.
soul passionate longing
Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God ...
kings responsibility clothes
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.
gratitude moments sacraments
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
joy secret way
This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.
trying quiet bits
Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
inspirational sorry apology
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.
prayer mean soul
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.
spiritual soul individual
The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.