Delicate Quote by Evelyn Underhill Download Open image “Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.” — Evelyn Underhill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delicate Humor Saint Sense of humor Virtue
If you find a saint who has no sense of humour, then he is not a saint at all. Impossible. His very seriousness says… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“The eyes of the saint make all beauty holy and the hands of the saint consecrate everything they touch to the glory of God,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The art of the saints is the ability to draw good out of every situation, no matter how bitter or painful.” — Marc Foley Copy Share Image
So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt. — John Osborne Copy Share Image
The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity. — Leah Hager Cohen 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
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background. — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it.… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate. — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
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Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over… — Homer Copy Share Image
I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the… — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
