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Evelyn Underhill
English
Writer
About the author
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 misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#Thinking
#Evil
#Interest
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#Patience
#Sympathy
#Kindness
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#Love
#Light
#Eyes
#Beauty
#Reality
#Charity
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 life.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#Life
#Deep
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#Forget
#Will
#Imagination
#Key
#Lies
In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#Father
#Indifference
#Coolness
God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#God
#Problems
#Home
#Quiet
#Prayer
You don't have to be peculiar to find God.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#God
Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#Day
#Quiet
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 other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#Interest
#Husband
There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#Character
#God
#Soul
The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#Will
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#Will
#Feeling
#Intellect
#Constancy
#Direction
Adoration is caring for God above all else.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#God
#Caring
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#God
#Present
#Gratitude
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
Evelyn Underhill,
English
Writer
#Acting
#Time
#God
#Sensations
#Spiritual
#Soul