Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhillwas an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth6 December 1875
Evelyn Underhill quotes about
prayer home quiet
God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
wall growth depends
My growth depends on my walls coming down.
peculiar
You don't have to be peculiar to find God,
mistake thinking afterlife
Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!
father tests cold
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.
differences execution martyrdom
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.
prayer mean doe
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.
prayer garden potatoes
The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.
spiritual prayer effectiveness
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.
spiritual real humility
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.