God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped. — 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… — 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
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
Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure… — 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… — 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
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
“True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other.… — 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
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
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
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
The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which… — 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
“Do not suppose from this that your new career is to be perpetually supported by agreeable spiritual contacts, or occupy itself in… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not… — 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… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does… — 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
For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than… — 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
