Evelyn Underhill Quotes

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

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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Future
  • Day
  • Balance

• I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Real
  • Want
  • Funny

• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Reading

• I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • End
  • Hell
  • Champions

• In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Together
  • Culture
  • Color

• Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Always
  • Promises

• I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Hate

• I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities - and not for the common mortal - was a very bad idea.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Bad
  • Science

• One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • War
  • Peace
  • Alone

• There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Together
  • Crazy
  • Opinion

• I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends. It was stolen one night when I was out in Edinburgh, and I never got it back.

  

  Neve McIntosh
  • Different
  • Friends
  • Night

• I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.

  

  Mark Pocan
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Leaving

• As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.

  

  Lysette Anthony
  • Life
  • Home
  • Drama

• I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So there!

  

  Busy Philipps
  • People
  • Pain
  • Baby

• Social media stars are only relevant because they make content, so they can never stop doing that.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Stop

• I have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Son

• I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Up
  • School
  • Imagination

• There's something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren't.

  

  Rachael Bermingham
  • People
  • Nature

• But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Money

• One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Die

• I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

  

  S. D Gordon
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• 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
  • God
  • Moment
  • Gratitude