Evelyn UnderhillDelicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.371Humor
Evelyn UnderhillNever let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and demands of a very practical sort---that all … ▶354LifeSadnessThought
Evelyn UnderhillAs the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to… ▶343Truth
Evelyn UnderhillThe mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience. ✨ Evelyn Underhill (2002). Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Sp… ▶322Life
Evelyn UnderhillIn 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 … ▶377LifeReading
Evelyn UnderhillThis 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.… ▶345Humanity
Evelyn UnderhillNever forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination. ✨ The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill.356Death
Evelyn UnderhillWhen you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an o… ▶324Thought
Evelyn UnderhillWe 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.324LifeLove
Evelyn UnderhillI have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.302Thought
Evelyn UnderhillThe 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 hu… ▶3710HumanityLifePolitics
Evelyn UnderhillChristianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not follow the footsteps of his most holy life by the exercise of a trained … ▶303LifeReading
Evelyn UnderhillThe spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there a… ▶281Life
Evelyn UnderhillSpiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer. ✨ Evelyn Underhill, Grace Aldophsen Brame (1993).… ▶325LifeReading
Evelyn UnderhillLove is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed. ✨ Evelyn Underhill (1923). The Lif… ▶316LifeLove
Evelyn UnderhillEvery 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 … ▶294Thought
Evelyn UnderhillThe 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.327Humanity
Evelyn UnderhillThe direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that. ✨ The Making of a Mystic: New … ▶251Reflection
Evelyn UnderhillAll artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative. ✨ Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness.284Humanity
Evelyn UnderhillMysticism is the art of union with Reality. ✨ Evelyn Underhill, Aeterna Press (2014). Practical Mysticism, p.10, Aeterna Press328Truth
Evelyn UnderhillAfter 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, Carol Poston (2010). The M… ▶3310Life
Evelyn UnderhillYou don't have to be peculiar to find God.318Humor
Evelyn UnderhillOn every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.263Life
Evelyn UnderhillThe 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 li… ▶253HumanityLife
Evelyn UnderhillI have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.286Reflection
Evelyn UnderhillGod is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.287Time
Evelyn UnderhillIt seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against lovel… ▶287HumanityLoveReading
Evelyn UnderhillA simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.265Life
Evelyn UnderhillThe will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.222Time
Evelyn UnderhillIdealism, 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 t… ▶201LifeLoveThought
