Richard Blackmore
English poet and physician
Evelyn Underhill
British mystic, poet, and novelist
Evelyn Underhillwas an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. Her best-known work is Mysticism, published in 1911.
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Evelyn Underhillwas an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. Her best-known work is Mysticism, published in 1911.
16 Quotes by Evelyn Underhill
- 1.
Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
Evelyn UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist
- 2.
You don’t have to be peculiar to find God.
Evelyn UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist
- 3.
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 UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist
- 4.
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
Evelyn UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist
- 5.
Adoration is caring for God above all else.
Evelyn UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist
- 6.
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 UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist
- 7.
God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
Evelyn UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist
- 8.
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
Evelyn UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist
- 9.
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 UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist
- 10.
There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
Evelyn UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist
- 11.
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
Evelyn UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist
- 12.
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
Evelyn UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist
- 13.
The will is what matters – as long as you have that, you are safe.
Evelyn UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist
- 14.
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 UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist
- 15.
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 UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist
- 16.
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 UnderhillBritish mystic, poet, and novelist