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
soul humanity secret
The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?
soul littles london
The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.
character soul my-soul
There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
soul saint mystery
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.
spiritual soul acting
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
soul suffering needs
Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism is useless unless it is the work of one devoted to God, willing and glad to suffer all things for God, penetrated by the attractiveness of God. New machinery, adaptations and adjustments, are not the first need... but more devoted, adoring, sacrificial souls.
soul passionate longing
Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God ...
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.
soul grace church
Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.
call giving obeying opportunity teach wants
Do not be scrupulous and think it selfish. You are obeying God's call and giving Him the opportunity to teach you what He wants you to know.
affairs concerned fail forgetting interest patient respond towards
Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.
fall men grace
Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together
sheep perception wool
As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.