You don't have to be peculiar to find God. Evelyn Underhill More Quotes by Evelyn Underhill More Quotes From Evelyn Underhill God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not. Evelyn Underhill actingsoulspiritual Mysticism is the art of union with Reality. Evelyn Underhill unionsrealityart Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day. Evelyn Underhill introverttryingquiet The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope. Evelyn Underhill possibilitynotesends 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 great-lovereadinginspirational though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy. Evelyn Underhill humilityrealspiritual When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an opening-up is the most practical of all activities. Evelyn Underhill opening-uplevelsworld The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute Life and Beauty of its Creator: and so lived, every bit has spiritual significance. Evelyn Underhill environmentalspiritualorder The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable. Evelyn Underhill clothesresponsibilitykings The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality. Evelyn Underhill acceptancerealityreligion 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 fixingprayerart Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth. Evelyn Underhill realmenart Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale. Evelyn Underhill religiousprayerchristian The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience. Evelyn Underhill handslooksfirsts 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 effectivenessprayerspiritual God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer. Evelyn Underhill prayerhomequiet 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 eyebeautyreality I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him. Evelyn Underhill kittencatopinion In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth. Evelyn Underhill soulprayermean The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe. Evelyn Underhill safetywhat-matterslong
