Evelyn Underhill Quotes
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Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
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Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?
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The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.
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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.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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It is immediately apparent, however, that this sense-world, this seemingly real external universe - though it may be useful and valid in other respects - cannot be the external world, but only the Self's projected picture of it ... The evidence of the senses, then, cannot be accepted as evidence of the nature of ultimate reality; useful servants, they are dangerous guides.
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Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
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The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction - not merely the idea - that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.
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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.
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The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.
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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.