Evelyn Underhill Quotes

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

» You don't have to be peculiar to find God.

» Adoration is caring for God above all else.

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

» The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.

» Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

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

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

» God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

» God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

» Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

» 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.

» 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.

» There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

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