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Evelyn Underhill Quotes
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Type: Writer Quotes Category: English Writer Quotes Year of Birth: 1875 Year of Death: 1941 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Evelyn Underhill Related Authors: Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin David Herbert Lawrence Charles Caleb Colton Joseph Addison Thomas Paine Quentin Crisp John le Carre |
Adoration is caring for God above all else.
Evelyn Underhill 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 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 Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. Evelyn Underhill Do not be scrupulous and think it selfish. You are obeying God's call and giving Him the opportunity to teach you what He wants you to know. Evelyn Underhill 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 God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not. 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 God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer. Evelyn Underhill 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. Evelyn Underhill 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 Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination. Evelyn Underhill 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 The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe. Evelyn Underhill There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not. Evelyn Underhill 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 Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day. Evelyn Underhill You don't have to be peculiar to find God. Evelyn Underhill |
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