Quotes from Evelyn Underhill
The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.
- Evelyn Underhill
This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.
- Evelyn Underhill
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
- Evelyn Underhill
Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.
- Evelyn Underhill
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
- Evelyn Underhill
You don't have to be peculiar to find God.
- 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
Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.
- Evelyn Underhill
I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!
- 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
If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.
- Evelyn Underhill
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.
- Evelyn Underhill