In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' -… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“All men, at one time or another, have fallen in love with the veiled Isis whom they call Truth. With most, this… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened! — 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
