Evelyn Underhill

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

— Evelyn Underhill

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

— Evelyn Underhill

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

— Evelyn Underhill

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

— Evelyn Underhill

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

— Evelyn Underhill

“Prayer, then, begins by an intellectual adjustment.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.

— Evelyn Underhill

All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.

— Evelyn Underhill

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

— Evelyn Underhill

Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!

— Evelyn Underhill

“It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of…

— Evelyn Underhill

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted…

— Evelyn Underhill

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which…

— Evelyn Underhill

Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.

— Evelyn Underhill

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not…

— Evelyn Underhill

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

— Evelyn Underhill

Many people feel unaware of any guidance, unable to discern or understand the signals of God; not because the signals are not…

— Evelyn Underhill

As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so…

— Evelyn Underhill

The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to…

— Evelyn Underhill

I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It…

— Evelyn Underhill

A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and…

— Evelyn Underhill

We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have…

— Evelyn Underhill

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest…

— Evelyn Underhill

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired…

— Evelyn Underhill

“Three deep cravings of the self, three great expressions of man's restlessness, which only mystic truth can fully satisfy. The first is…

— Evelyn Underhill

Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up…

— Evelyn Underhill

Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have…

— Evelyn Underhill

In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes…

— Evelyn Underhill

It is immediately apparent, however, that this sense-world, this seemingly real external universe - though it may be useful and valid in…

— Evelyn Underhill

“Do not suppose from this that your new career is to be perpetually supported by agreeable spiritual contacts, or occupy itself in…

— Evelyn Underhill

Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the…

— Evelyn Underhill

But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it,…

— Evelyn Underhill

It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.

— Evelyn Underhill

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

— Evelyn Underhill

religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

— Evelyn Underhill

We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do.

— Evelyn Underhill

“art is the link between appearance and reality.”

— Evelyn Underhill

All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives.

— Evelyn Underhill

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

— Evelyn Underhill

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

— Evelyn Underhill