Evelyn Underhill Quotes
"You don't have to be peculiar to find God."
- Evelyn Underhill
(Related: God)
"Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day."
- Evelyn Underhill
(Related: Day, Quiet)
"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."
- Evelyn Underhill
(Related: Husband, Interest)
"There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not."
- Evelyn Underhill
(Related: God, Soul, Character)
"The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe."
- Evelyn Underhill
(Related: Will)
"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
(Related: Constancy, Direction, Feeling, Intellect, Will)
"Adoration is caring for God above all else."
- Evelyn Underhill
(Related: God, Caring)
"God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament."
- Evelyn Underhill
(Related: God, Gratitude, Present)
"God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not."
- Evelyn Underhill
(Related: God, Time, Soul, Acting, Sensations, Spiritual)
"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
(Related: Evil, Interest, Thinking)
"Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience."
- Evelyn Underhill
(Related: Sympathy, Kindness, Patience)
"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
(Related: Beauty, Love, Charity, Eyes, Light, Reality)
"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
(Related: Life, Deep)
"Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination."
- Evelyn Underhill
(Related: Imagination, Forget, Key, Lies, Will)
"In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly."
- Evelyn Underhill
(Related: Father, Coolness, Indifference)