Quotes by : Evelyn Underhill

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things....

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified....

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual....

True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one....

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is....

Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his....

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.