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
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
There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
Evelyn Underhill
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
Evelyn Underhill
The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.
Evelyn Underhill
Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
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.
Evelyn Underhill
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
Evelyn Underhill
The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.
Evelyn Underhill
You don't have to be peculiar to find God.
Evelyn Underhill
God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
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
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
Evelyn Underhill
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
Evelyn Underhill
Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
Evelyn Underhill
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