A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“To elude nature, to refuse her friendship, and attempt to leap the river of life in the hope of finding God on… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“Eternity is with us, inviting our contemplation perpetually, but we are too frightened, lazy, and suspicious to respond; too arrogant to still… — evelyn underhill Copy Share Image
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake! — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his latent faculties, a bracing and… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
When you let intution have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
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. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
