Reality Quotes by Evelyn Underhill

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

— Evelyn Underhill

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

— Evelyn Underhill

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

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

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

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

though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish…

— Evelyn Underhill

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

— Evelyn Underhill

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the…

— Evelyn Underhill