Evelyn Underhill Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by 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


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


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God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
~Evelyn Underhill


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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
~Evelyn Underhill


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You don't have to be peculiar to find God.
~Evelyn Underhill


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/evelyn-underhill-quotes/#60e61f43

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.
~Evelyn Underhill


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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
~Evelyn Underhill


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All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
~Evelyn Underhill


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/evelyn-underhill-quotes/#8e061d8f

The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.
~Evelyn Underhill


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/evelyn-underhill-quotes/#302fb0a2

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
~Evelyn Underhill


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/evelyn-underhill-quotes/#e3f5b517

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
~Evelyn Underhill


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/evelyn-underhill-quotes/#68abb183

Adoration is caring for God above all else.
~Evelyn Underhill


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/evelyn-underhill-quotes/#b2ebde5c

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
~Evelyn Underhill


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/evelyn-underhill-quotes/#4c6887ab

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.
~Evelyn Underhill


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/evelyn-underhill-quotes/#07bfd8b9

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
~Evelyn Underhill


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/evelyn-underhill-quotes/#9f4e2073

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/evelyn-underhill-quotes/#2d31cb63

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