Creeds Quote by Evelyn Underhill Download Open image “Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.” — Evelyn Underhill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creeds Dreamer May Ritual Want
A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for. — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
The dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him. — Seth Copy Share
If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue! — Mark Gorman Copy Share Image
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out. — Christina Baldwin 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 brightening of his languid consciousness, an emancipation from the fetters of appearance, a turning of his attention to new levels of the world. Thus he may become aware of the universe which the spiritual artist is… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share
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 assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share
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 actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit of love for our fellow people, regardless of race, color, or creed, shall fill the world, making real in our lives and our deeds the actuality of human brother- and sisterhood, until the great mass… — Helen Keller Copy Share
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social,… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man… Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts,… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share
Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second,… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their national origin - where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases - and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have a personal interest in their survival ... all thought the main reason for the quiet sway of religion over their country was the complete separation of church and state. I have no hesitation in stating that… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
