“ As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to adore His splendour,… Evelyn Underhill
“ Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination. Evelyn Underhill
“ After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. Evelyn Underhill
“ On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur. Evelyn Underhill
“ Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me. Evelyn Underhill
“ It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. 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
“ Three deep cravings of the self, three great expressions of man's restlessness, which only mystic truth can fully satisfy. The first is the craving which makes him a pilgrim and a wanderer. It is the… Evelyn Underhill
“ Held tight as it seems to you in the finite, committed to the perpetual rhythmic changes, the unceasing flux of "natural" life— compelled to pass on from state to state, to grow, to age, to die— there… Evelyn Underhill
“ Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his latent faculties, a bracing and brightening of his languid consciousness, an emancipation from the… Evelyn Underhill
“ As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate… Evelyn Underhill
“ 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 t… Evelyn Underhill
“ In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher gues… Evelyn Underhill
