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
verbs fundamentals want
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.
gratitude moments sacraments
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
christianity declaration primaries
The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!
gratitude jobs pain
Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and demands of a very practical sort---that all these need separate you from communion with Him. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament; however unexpected its outward form may be receive Him in every sight and sound, joy, pain, opportunity and sacrifice.
acceptance reality religion
The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.
opening-up levels way
When you let intution have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of all activities.
personal-knowledge hands practice
Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.
live-life three verbs
We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do.
method mysticism
The business and method of mysticism is love.
kings responsibility clothes
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.
dreamer may want
Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual ...
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!
differences execution martyrdom
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.