Quotes from 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
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
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
The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.
— Evelyn Underhill
Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
— Evelyn Underhill
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
— 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
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
— Evelyn Underhill
Adoration is caring for God above all else.
— Evelyn Underhill
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
— Evelyn Underhill
Why, after all, take as our standard a material world whose existence is affirmed by nothing more trustworthy than the sense-impressions of "normal men"; those imperfect and easily cheated channels of communication?
— Evelyn Underhill
You don't have to be peculiar to find God.
— Evelyn Underhill