Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Achieved
Saint
Prayer
Asks
Spiritual
Insofar
Able
Reply
Love
Effectiveness
Saints
More quotes by Evelyn Underhill
Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
Evelyn Underhill
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
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
The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
Evelyn Underhill
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
Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
Evelyn Underhill
Adoration is caring for God above all else.
Evelyn Underhill
We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
Evelyn Underhill
Christian history looks glorious in retrospect but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.
Evelyn Underhill
The business and method of mysticism is love.
Evelyn Underhill
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
Evelyn Underhill
The Christian is the person who sees every time and every situation, however dreary and repetitive, as God sees it - a fresh creation from his hand, demanding its own response in perhaps a wholly new and creative way. Under God he is free over it. He has won through to a purchase over events he has risen with Christ.
Evelyn Underhill
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
The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
Evelyn Underhill
It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.
Evelyn Underhill
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
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
Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
Evelyn Underhill
The mystic lives and looks and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
Evelyn Underhill
My growth depends on my walls coming down.
Evelyn Underhill
