Quote

No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

Evelyn Underhill

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Begin
Ordinary
Existence
Asks
Belief
Metaphysician
Individual
Uncertainties
Else
Shaken
Uncertainty

More quotes by Evelyn Underhill

Image
We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
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
Image
Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
My growth depends on my walls coming down.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
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
Image
In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
Evelyn Underhill
Image
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
Evelyn Underhill