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
Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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
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
Image
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
Image
Many people feel unaware of any guidance, unable to discern or understand the signals of God not because the signals are not given, but because the mind is too troubled, clouded, and hurried to receive them.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.
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
The business and method of mysticism is love.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
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
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
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 mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
Evelyn Underhill