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By the quality of our inner li...

By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and strain. I mean rather such a humble and genial devotedness as we find in the most loving of the saints. I mean the quality which makes contagious Christians, makes people catch the love of God from you.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

For the most part, of course, ...

For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of air on our bodies, or the action of light. Our field of attention is not wide enough for that; our spiritual senses are not sufficiently alert. Most people work so hard at developing their correspondence with the visible world, that their power of correspondence with the invisible is left in a rudimentary state.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

Spiritual reading is a regular...

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

It is important to increase ou...

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 133 quotes

Every minute you are thinking ...

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 133 quotes

After all it is those who have...

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 133 quotes

Deliberately seek opportunitie...

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

There is no place in my soul, ...

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

We spend most of our lives con...

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

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

For lack of attention a thousa...

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

We have descended into the gar...

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

In the created world around us...

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

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

The life, beauty and meaning o...

The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute Life and Beauty of its Creator: and so lived, every bit has spiritual significance.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

Mysticism is the art of union ...

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

The practical life of a vast n...

The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

Many people feel unaware of an...

Many people feel unaware of any guidance, unable to discern or understand the signals of God; not because the signals are not given, but because the mind is too troubled, clouded, and hurried to receive them.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

The business and method of mys...

The business and method of mysticism is love.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

As the genuine religious impul...

As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

It seems so much easier in the...

It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

We mostly spend [our] lives co...

We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.

Evelyn Underhill 133 quotes

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