Quote

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

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
Facts
Humility
Upsets
Doe
Merely
Failings
Soul
Eating
Acknowledgement
Real
Failing
Nourish
Good
Bits
Shortcomings
Though
Worms
Fact
Upset
Tummy
Spiritual
Souls
Gratuitous

More quotes by Evelyn Underhill

Image
Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
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 in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
Adoration is caring for God above all else.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
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
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
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
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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
The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
The first question here, then, is not What is best for my soul? nor is it even What is most useful to humanity? But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?
Evelyn Underhill
Image
In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
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
Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
Evelyn Underhill
Image
The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
Evelyn Underhill