Evelyn Underhill Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Personal Knowledge, Hands, Practice

• No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Ordinary, Belief, Individual

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness”, p.16, Aeterna Press

• In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Prayer, Mean, Soul

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mixed Pasture: Twelve Essays and Addresses”, p.24, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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