Evelyn Underhill

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

— Evelyn Underhill

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

— Evelyn Underhill

Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.

— Evelyn Underhill

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

— Evelyn Underhill

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

— Evelyn Underhill

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

— Evelyn Underhill

Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.

— Evelyn Underhill

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

— Evelyn Underhill

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted…

— 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

Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.

— Evelyn Underhill

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating…

— Evelyn Underhill

If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did…

— Evelyn Underhill

It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.

— Evelyn Underhill

As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact…

— Evelyn Underhill

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

— 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 spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's…

— Evelyn Underhill

As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning…

— Evelyn Underhill

Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow…

— Evelyn Underhill

It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for…

— 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

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

— Evelyn Underhill

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to…

— Evelyn Underhill

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its…

— Evelyn Underhill

It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make…

— Evelyn Underhill

A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response…

— Evelyn Underhill

“Do not suppose from this that your new career is to be perpetually supported by agreeable spiritual contacts, or occupy itself in…

— Evelyn Underhill

Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the…

— Evelyn Underhill

But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it,…

— Evelyn Underhill

Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism is useless…

— Evelyn Underhill

It is immediately apparent, however, that this sense-world, this seemingly real external universe - though it may be useful and valid in…

— Evelyn Underhill

religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

— Evelyn Underhill

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

— Evelyn Underhill

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

— Evelyn Underhill

“art is the link between appearance and reality.”

— Evelyn Underhill

All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives.

— Evelyn Underhill

You don't have to be peculiar to find God,

— Evelyn Underhill

Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together

— Evelyn Underhill

Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.

— Evelyn Underhill