Best Evelyn Underhill Sayings
- We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance,… Any
- The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive… All
- Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own… Apology
- After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer… Able
- Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. Compassion
- There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not. Character
- If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped. Big
- The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both… Both
- Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by… Anatomist
- In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured… Absolute
- On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure… All
- Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer. Adoring
- It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him. God
- Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with… Affairs