Quotes from Evelyn Underhill

That "henceforth the heat of having shall never scorch him more.

The Christian Church is the Body of Christ. Her mission on earth is to spread the Spirit of Christ, which is the creative spirit of wisdom and love; and in so doing bring in the Kingdom of God. Therefore, she can never support or approve an human action, individual or collective, which is hostile to wisdom and love. This is the first and last reason why, if she remains true to her supernatural call, the Church cannot acquiesce to war.

They are ever eager to assure us that man's most sublime thoughts of the Transcendent are but a little better than his worst: that loving intuition is the only certain guide. "By love may He be gotten and holden, but by thought never.

In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.

Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.