Evelyn Underhill Quotes

Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.

Evelyn Underhill

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• Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Golf

• Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Power
  • Change
  • Wishes

• Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Great
  • Honesty

• Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Like
  • Deep
  • Lyrics

• A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Black
  • Lawyer
  • Group

• I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Fighting
  • Spirit
  • Army

• I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Important
  • War
  • Taken

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I think I drift toward sad love songs.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Sad

• As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Men

• I write with teenagers in mind.

  

  Bernard Beckett
  • Mind

• We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Life

• Boxing makes you kind of tight, so it's really good to mix that with barre, Pilates, or something that'll stretch you out and make you longer. I'm not the person that loves to be in the gym so much. I like to mix it up as much as possible; otherwise, I'll get bored.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bored

• I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • People
  • Jealousy

• I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

  

  Plato

• I do everything: I'll have a green juice, then a melted chocolate ice cream. I stay up very late, I get up very early.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • Up
  • Green
  • Chocolate

• Growing up as a South Asian-American, I didn't have any female role models.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Up
  • American
  • Growing

• Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, 'You're Stifler's mom. Can I take a picture with you?' But then you get people like her putting their camera in your face without asking. They think they can do whatever they like.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • People
  • Nice
  • Mom

• The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

  

  Charles Reade
  • Dark

• When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Technology

• But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Death
  • Depravity

• Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Soul
  • Disappointments
  • Thunderstorm

• Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Soul
  • Imagination
  • Religious