Quotes from Evelyn Underhill

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

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

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

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

I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.

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.

Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.

I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!

The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.

The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

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.

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.

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.

religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

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.

A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

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.

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

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

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

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