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....

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to....

The business and method of mysticism is love.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

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

It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details....

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.

the night of thought is the light of perception.