Best Quotes by Evelyn Underhill (Top 10)
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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
Evelyn Underhill
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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 guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram âimpersonal and unattainableâthe Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.
Evelyn Underhill
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
Evelyn Underhill
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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
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Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
Evelyn Underhill
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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
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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
Evelyn Underhill
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.
Evelyn Underhill
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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, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship.
Evelyn Underhill
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Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
Evelyn Underhill