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 determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him',… — 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
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
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
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
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have… — 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
