Evelyn Underhill

“All artist of some measure contemplative.”

— Evelyn Underhill

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that…

— Evelyn Underhill

Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure…

— Evelyn Underhill

The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must…

— Evelyn Underhill

“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

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where…

— Evelyn Underhill

We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do.

— Evelyn Underhill

The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which…

— Evelyn Underhill

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which…

— Evelyn Underhill

“It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of…

— Evelyn Underhill

“For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday”

— Evelyn Underhill

“Prayer, then, begins by an intellectual adjustment.”

— Evelyn Underhill

In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.

— Evelyn Underhill

“When we are in good health, we all feel very real, solid, and permanent; and this is of all our illusions the…

— Evelyn Underhill

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

— Evelyn Underhill

The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to…

— Evelyn Underhill

The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it…

— Evelyn Underhill

“Held tight as it seems to you in the finite, committed to the perpetual rhythmic changes, the unceasing flux of "natural" life—…

— Evelyn Underhill

“art is the link between appearance and reality.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired…

— Evelyn Underhill

When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open…

— Evelyn Underhill

All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives.

— Evelyn Underhill

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

— Evelyn Underhill

For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than…

— Evelyn Underhill

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and…

— Evelyn Underhill