Quotes from Evelyn Underhill
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.
- Evelyn Underhill
A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.
- Evelyn Underhill
Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.
- Evelyn Underhill
Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
- Evelyn Underhill
God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
- Evelyn Underhill
Adoration is caring for God above all else.
- Evelyn Underhill
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
In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
- Evelyn Underhill
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
- Evelyn Underhill
It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
- Evelyn Underhill
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.
- Evelyn Underhill
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.
- Evelyn Underhill