Underhill Quotes

All artist of some measure contemplative. — Evelyn Underhill

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating ... — Evelyn Underhill

Adoration is caring for God above all else. — Evelyn Underhill

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 all activities. — Evelyn Underhill

But that's enough. Fun is fun and done is done. Turn out their lights, beautiful. — Stephen King

The business and method of mysticism is love. — Evelyn Underhill

The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls. — Evelyn Underhill

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day. — Evelyn Underhill

In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two. — Paco Underhill

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

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

Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together — Evelyn Underhill

Religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood. — Evelyn Underhill

I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God. — Evelyn Underhill

Curiosity is the ultimate power tool. — Roy Underhill

He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life. — Evelyn Underhill

The individual is reminded that in him, no less than in the Archetypal Universe, real life must be born if real life is to be lived. — Evelyn Underhill

Grant, in his message, has remembered all classes and conditions of men to Congress, — Lois Beachy Underhill

Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God. — Evelyn Underhill

The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe. — Evelyn Underhill

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed. — Evelyn Underhill

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God ... — Evelyn Underhill

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not. — Evelyn Underhill

Given the chance, people will buy from people who care. — Paco Underhill

Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth. — Evelyn Underhill

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

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints. — Evelyn Underhill

If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would collapse, boom. — Paco Underhill

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

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

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. — Evelyn Underhill

The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope. — Evelyn Underhill

The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened! — Evelyn Underhill

Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual ... — Evelyn Underhill

Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake! — Evelyn Underhill

The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism. — Frank Underhill

As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world. — Evelyn Underhill

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom. — Evelyn Underhill

For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday — Evelyn Underhill

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped. — Evelyn Underhill

In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth. — Evelyn Underhill

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

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience. — Evelyn Underhill

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer. — Evelyn Underhill

The Apple store is not a store. It is an exercise in evangelism. — Paco Underhill

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

Art is the link between appearance and reality. — Evelyn Underhill

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

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

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality. — Evelyn Underhill

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls. — Evelyn Underhill

My growth depends on my walls coming down. — Evelyn Underhill

The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer. — Evelyn Underhill

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future. — Frank Underhill

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

It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible. — Evelyn Underhill

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination. — Evelyn Underhill

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap. — Evelyn Underhill

Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear. — Vernor Vinge

All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives. — Evelyn Underhill

You don't have to be peculiar to find God. — Evelyn Underhill

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God. — Evelyn Underhill