Quotes of Evelyn Underhill - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. ”

- Evelyn Underhill

“ For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ Feast of Philip & James, Apostles If we do not at least try to manifest something of Creative Charity in our dealings with life, whether by action, thought, or prayer, and do it at our own cost — if we roll up the talent of love in the nice white napkin of piety and put it safely out of the way, sorry that the world is so hungry and thirsty, so sick and so fettered, and leave it at that: then, even that little talent may be taken from us… ”

- Evelyn Underhill

“ Feast of Philip & James, Apostles If we do not at least try to manifest something of Creative Charity in our dealings with life, whether by action, thought, or prayer, and do it at our own cost — if we roll up the talent of love in the nice white napkin of piety and put it safely out of the way, sorry that the world is so hungry and thirsty, so sick and so fettered, and leave it at that: then, even that little talent may be taken from us… ”

- Evelyn Underhill

“ Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 Many a congregation when it assembles in church must look to the angels like a muddy, puddly shore at low tide; littered with every kind of rubbish and odds and ends — a distressing sort of spectacle… ”

- Evelyn Underhill

“ When we look out towards this love that moves the stars and stirs in the child's heart and claims our total allegiance, and remember that this alone is Reality and we are only real so far as we conform to its demands, we see our human situation from a fresh angle; and we perceive that it is both more humble and dependent, and more splendid, than we had dreamed… ”

- Evelyn Underhill

“ This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, is the fruit of true self-oblation; for a soul totally possessed by God is a soul totally possessed by Charity. By the path of self-offering, the Church and the soul have come up to the frontiers of the Holy… ”

- 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

“ As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints. ”

- 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

“ Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints. ”

- Evelyn Underhill

“ This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, is the fruit of true self-oblation; for a soul totally possessed by God is a soul totally possessed by Charity. By the path of self-offering, the Church and the soul have come up to the frontiers of the Holy… ”

- Evelyn Underhill

“ But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God. ”

- 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

“ This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, is the fruit of true self-oblation; for a soul totally possessed by God is a soul totally possessed by Charity. By the path of self-offering, the Church and the soul have come up to the frontiers of the Holy… ”

- 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

“ 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

“ It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible. ”

- 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

“ For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. ”

- 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

“ 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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