Quotes from 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.

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

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.

It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

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.

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

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

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.

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.

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

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

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

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.

For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday

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.

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.

The business and method of mysticism is love.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

the night of thought is the light of perception.

He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life.

art is the link between appearance and reality.