Evelyn Underhill Quotes

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

• Prayer
• Worship
• Impulse
• Charge
• Adoration
• Seek For God

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• The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Fear
  • Alone

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Acting

• I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Life
  • Justice
  • Kindness

• I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Fun
  • Age
  • Today

• I remember, when I lived in a refugee camp, it was the people who weren't Somali, the people who came from Western countries, who helped the most. I remember being six and thinking, 'I want to be one of those women,' because I knew how much they helped us.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Women

• I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Energy

• Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

  

  Li Peng
  • Political
  • Serious
  • Summer

• Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.

  

  Dave Reichert
  • Work
  • Immigration

• Evidence pointing to eagle hunting's antiquity comes from Scythian and other burial mounds of nomads who roamed the steppes 3,000 years ago and whose artifacts abound in eagle imagery.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Hunting

• L'homme est ainsi bâti: Quand un sujet l'enflammeL'impossibilité disparaît à son âme.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine
  • Son

• Il connaît l’univers, et ne se connaît pas.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

• If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. They're going through something that's very, very hard.

  

  Eric Millegan
  • People

• I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Belief

• Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.

  

  Walter Map
  • Boy
  • Rose
  • Afterwards

• I think teams win. I don't think offense wins. I don't think defense wins. I don't think special teams - teams win.

  

  Dabo Swinney

• You can't be afraid to play. Commit to play and you live with the results.

  

  Dabo Swinney
  • Live

• As long as you have the chairman (title) and you're the CEO, you're still in charge of the organization, ... I'll do that for the next year and a half and then when I go to emeritus (status), John gets the president title.

  

  Bob Harlan
  • Organization
  • Charge
  • President Title

• The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Reason
  • Ego
  • Sanity

• 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
  • Prayer
  • Worship
  • Impulse